STORY: Sweden to help rehabilitate Al-

Shabaab fighters held in Somali prisons

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DATELINE: 1/JUNE/2017, BAIDOA, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST

1. Wide shot, Shaati Gaduud International Airport Baidoa

2. Med shot, Swedish delegation on arrival in Baidoa
3. Wide shot, Swedish delegation on arrival in Baidoa
4. Wide shot, delegation heading to the presidential palace for
a meeting with the President of South West state, Sharif
Hassan Sheikh Adan
5. Wide shot, delegation arrives at the Presidential Palace
6. Med shot, delegation in a meeting with President Sharif
Hassan Sheikh Adan
7. Close up shot, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan , President of
South West state and Swedish Ambassador to Somalia Mikael
Lindvall in a meeting
8. Med shot, delegation in a meeting
9. Close up shot, President Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan
speaking at the meeting
10. Wide shot, delegation being welcomed by Baidoa prison
officers
11. Med shot, prison officers on parade
12. Wide shot, delegation entering the prison compound
13. Med shot, prison officers meeting with the delegation
14. Close up shot, prison officers meeting with the delegation
15. Close up shot, Mikael Lindvall, Swedish Ambassador to
Somalia listening
16. Close up shot, members of the Swedish delegation listening
17. Wide shot, members of the Swedish delegation listening at
the meeting
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikael Lindvall, Swedish
Ambassador to Somalia
Today we came with two colleagues from Swedish prison and
probation services in Stockholm to visit the prison here in Baidoa.
We have been working through the UN with some staff from the
Swedish prison and probation services based here in Baidoa. The
aim of working with prison is to try and rehabilitate former Al-
Shabaab members in the prison. The idea was to make the project
outgoing see if we can expand it and use other places perhaps and
see how we can help.

19. Wide shot, Baidoa prison officers showing the delegation

around
20. Med shot, Swedish delegation and Baidoa prison officers in a
meeting
21. Close up shot, The director of Rule of Law and Security
Institutions Group ( ROLSIG) Staffan Tillander listening at the
meeting
22. Med shot, Swedish delegation and Baidoa prison officers in a
meeting
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Staffan Tillander, Director of
Rule of Law and Security Institutions Group ( ROLSIG)
We are here today to speak with the representatives of state
government and the people working in the Baidoa prison to see how
we can improve the justice and rule of law in correction in South
West state. The government has a leading role and it is very
important that both the whole rule of law chain is built up and that
there is balance; we need police, there needs to be justice, there
needs to be corrections that treat in a decent way. This is an
important part of the state and peace building efforts in a federal
system. It is essential that state government takes its responsibility
by working with the people and also with the federal government in
implementing this.

24. Wide shot, Swedish delegation and Baidoa prison officers in

a meeting
25. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Adan Ahmed, Commander of
South West prison wardens
We welcome the visiting delegation. The operation was going on,
we request the prison to be expanded and make it a standard one. I
request the Swedish, UN and ISWA (Interim South West
Administration) President Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan to help develop
this prison. The prison is congested. The President of South West
state has a good opportunity today, to lobby for the expansion of
the prison and capacity building of prison wardens.

26. Wide shot, Swedish delegation and Baidoa prison officers in

a meeting

Sweden to help rehabilitate Al-Shabaab fighters held in

Somali prisons
Baidoa, 1 June 2017 - A high level delegation led by the Swedish
Ambassador to Somalia, Mikael Lindvall, today visited Baidoa central
prison to observe the implementation of the Al-Shabaab prisoners
rehabilitation project.

Ambassador Mikael Lindvall was accompanied by officials from the

Swedish Prison and Probation Service and the Director of the UNSOM
Rule of Law and Security Institutions Group, Mr. Staffan Tillander.

The delegation visited the prison, observed rehabilitation project

activities and met with the prison management and project
implementation team. The team said that they had overcome initial
wariness on the part of the Al-Shabaab prisoners through dialogue
and confidence-building and noted that the prisoners are now fully
engaged with the project.

The idea is to keep the project going and see if we can expand it
and replicate it in other places [in Somalia], Mr. Lindvall explained.

The delegation also met with South West State President Sharif
Hassan Sheikh Adan, who expressed appreciation for Swedens
support to the project and requested assistance in rebuilding the
justice system and improving conditions of confinement through the
construction of a new prison.

The President said it was unacceptable that the local population had
to seek justice from Al-Shabaab courts in the absence of a fully
functioning judiciary.

It is very important that the whole rule of law chain is built up and
that there is balance. We need police, there needs to be justice,
there needs to be corrections that treat people in a decent way, Mr.
Tillander said.

In addition to the rehabilitation project, UNSOM has been supporting

the prison through the construction of a security barrier; trainings
for the custodial corps on basic prison management, human rights
and medical care; and in partnership with UNIDO, setting up a
vocational training center for prisoners.

Bay Region prison commander Adan Ali Ahmed thanked UNSOM,

Sweden and other partners for their efforts to improve security,
provide capacity building and enhance prisoners welfare. This
wasnt a prison before, he said.

The visit by the Swedish delegation came after the adoption of a

security pact at the London Somalia Conference, early last month
that calls for a political agreement on a justice and corrections
model for Somalia.