Somali officials intervened to save Hussen despite Italian torture denial

Evidence

Inspector Hersi immediately went to the district commissioner and reported that the man in that cell was dying. The two returned to the cell, and the commissioner asked Hussen what had happened, but he ignored the question. The Somali inspector then went to the governor and told him about Hussen’s condition. Disturbed by what he saw, the governor called his staff, including the commissioner, and inquired about what had happened. Everyone pretended that they did not know. An ambulance took Hussen to the hospital where the governor summoned an Italian doctor to examine Hussen. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 294