The 1969 Somali regime jailed an MP despite his constitutional immunity.

Evidence

The government did not take any chances and immediately took the MP to prison without considering that MPs had constitutionally guaranteed immunity from prosecution unless parliament lifted that privilege. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1010

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader goal of tracking how 1960s Somali democracy was progressively undermined before the 1969 coup.