A/HRC/32/12 17. Regarding children and young people, the Minister stated that, despite political volatility, insecurity, and limited access to resources, Somalia had made significant advances since the last review. The accession of Somalia to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2015 had been a historic milestone. 18. Furthermore, Somalia had continued its efforts to secure the release and reintegration of children recruited by armed forces and groups. Accordingly, the Government had established the Serendi Rehabilitation Centre, whose purpose was to rehabilitate adults and children who had formerly fought in armed groups, before reintegrating them into society. Since the most recent visit of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, the management of the centre had reviewed and significantly changed the centre’s procedures and policies, making it more transparent and open to independent monitoring, which had resulted in the transfer of 64 disengaged child fighters to child-appropriate facilities better equipped for their specific needs. 19. The Attorney General stated that the most significant obstacle for human rights protection in Somalia was the fragile security situation created by terrorism. Frequent terrorist attacks on government officials, human rights defenders and civilians had generated a continuous state of fear. To prevent terrorism and to reduce its adverse consequences, the Government had drafted the country’s first-ever national counterterrorism bill. The Cabinet had approved the bill and sent it to Parliament, where it was waiting to be tabled. 20. This bill would better enable the Office of the Attorney General to prosecute effectively groups and individuals suspected of terrorism, as it provided a legal framework for the fight against terrorism. It also gave special powers to the security forces to conduct missions within a legal scope. It would ensure due process for suspects and protection for witnesses. The Government had also reaffirmed its commitment to being cautious with affiliating any organization with terrorism without substantial and solid evidence. 21. The Government had undertaken efforts to make the public aware of the challenges in its role of ensuring both the security of the nation and citizens’ rights to expression and assembly. Moreover, the Government was working to establish the necessary legal framework to guarantee to citizens freedom from arbitrary arrest, as provided in the provisional Constitution. 22. Concerning the media, the Attorney General indicated that the Government firmly believed that every person had the right to disagree with, or dissent from, the Government, and to state that disagreement or dissent publicly as guaranteed by the provisional Constitution. However, this could only happen within the limits of orderly discourse in a democratic society. No citizen had the right, even if disguised as freedom of expression, to incite, to defame, or to endanger society and its security. 23. In this regard, the Attorney General gave an example of a journalist who had falsely spread news that Ebola had been diagnosed in Somalia. This news wreaked havoc on the already fragile society and economy, causing flights to be cancelled, shipments to be postponed and important work to be halted. Another example was the radio host who had called on all Somalis to rise up against the Government, violently if necessary. This kind of freedom of expression could never be tolerated, for obvious reasons. 24. The Somali National Media Law provided for the rights of journalists. The media bill had been formulated on the basis of full consultations with all sectors of the Somali media community. The bill had been passed into law in the past two weeks and been signed by the President. With this law, the Government ensured that journalists were treated in accordance with the laws of the nation. The law included the provisions that every suspect would be brought before a competent judge within 48 hours, that no one would be 5