Mohamed Aden Sheikh
Mohamed Aden Sheikh (c. 1936 – September 30, 2010) was a Somali medical doctor and politician who held posts as Minister of Health, Minister of Education, and Minister of Information[1]
Aden was the first Somali surgeon who received his medical training at the University of Rome and practiced at Mogadishu General Hospital.[1] He enter politics in the 1970s and held various cabinet positions.[1] Aden was also a central committee member of the only political party allowed in Somalia, the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party.[1] On June 9, 1982, he was one of seven parliamentarians arrested and accused of treason for having criticized the government of President Siad Barre.[1] Aden was the president of the Somali National Academy of Sciences and Arts at the time of his arrest.[1]
He was also the former Head of the Ideology Bureau SRRC and Somali Technological Development.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 National Academy of Sciences: Committee on Human Rights; Institute of Medicine: Committee on Health and Human Rights (1988). "The Parliamentarians". Scientists and Human Rights in Somalia: Report of a Delegation. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. p. 22.