1. It was in January 1983 that the Somali National Movement attacked Mandera prison and released hundreds of prisoners including a dozen political prisoners. [ Africa South of the Sahara 1986, Fifteenth Edition, (London: Europa Publications Ltd., 1986), p.839.] This information is corroborated in Somalia Nation in Search of a State (1987).

The Toronto office of Amnesty International is unable to provide a list of the names of people who were transferred from Hargeisa to Mandera prison.
Attached please find the following documents:
1. David D. Laitin and Said S. Samatar, Somalia Nation in Search of a State, (London: Westview Press, 1987), pp.92-95.
2. Africa South of the Sahara 1986, Fifteenth Edition, (London: Europa Publications Ltd., 1986), pp.838-839.