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Amun Abdullahi grew up in Somalia and came in the 1990s to Sweden as a refugee.
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In Sweden, she lived first in Umeå, then Stockholm"s Rinkeby district, and finally Kista, before moving back to Mogadishu, Somalia. In Stockholm, she worked for Social Research International, and made several high-profile reports broadcast on Sveriges Radio. Among other things, she revealed in 2009 that a leader of a youth center in Rinkeby recruited young people to the Somali islamist militia al-Shabab.
She has been both physically and intellectually attacked and repeatedly threatened due to her work.
She claims that Sweden is "more dangerous than Mogadishu" for a journalist who wants to tell the truth.
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