Somali teenager arrested for reporting rape Women and children living in Somalia's makeshift camps for displaced people face a high risk of rape and other sexual violence. Courtesy: Amnesty International A 19-year-old woman has been charged for "defamation" after alleging she was raped to a journalist. THE United Nations in Somalia has called for a proper investigation after a teenage rape victim was arrested for alleging in a video interview that she had been raped at gunpoint. The journalist who interviewed her has also been arrested. Al Jazeera reports the 19-year-old woman alleges she was raped in the nation's capital, Mogadishu. In an interview filmed by Mohamed Bashir, a reporter for Somalia's most popular and influential network, Radio Shabelle, the victim alleges she was attacked by a journalist from the same station. In the interview she names the man who she claims raped her, yet her alleged attacker has not yet been arrested or charged. Government official Abdirahman Omar Osman confirmed the victim and Bashir were arrested on Wednesday on charges of defamation. "She admitted to have been pressured to make the video by [Bashir]," said Omar Osman. However the woman initially said in the recorded interview that she had been tricked into going to a house where two men threatened and raped her. "One of the men threatened me with a pistol, and took me to the bedroom by force... both of them raped me several times, destroying my pride and dignity," the AFP news agency quotes Ms Hassan as saying in the interview. The owner of the station was also arrested, but later released on "medical grounds." Radio Shabelle is also owned by the State. The pair are set to appear in court in a matter of days. The arrest is eerily similar to a case earlier this year, where journalist Abdiaziz Abdinuur was sentenced to six months in prison after interviewing a woman who claimed she was raped by security forces. The court ruled the story to be false due to a "finger test" on the victim, even though the Human Rights Watch has described the method as an "unscientific and degrading practice that has long been discredited." The woman was also charged, but was eventually released from her one year sentence for "offending institutions." Abdinuur was found guilty on charges of "offending state institutions, making a false interview and entering the house of a woman whose husband was not present." In August the New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) called again for Somalia's government to order a new, impartial and transparent investigation into another alleged gang-rape, this time by African Union (AU) soldiers. A Somali woman alleged she had been stopped on the streets of Mogadishu by three soldiers from the national army, blindfolded and forced into a car, before being handed over to African Union troops where she says she was repeatedly raped. The woman, in her late 20s with a young baby, was unconscious during the attack and said she does not know how many men raped her. She was later thrown back onto the streets. HRW said the response to the incident "has been marred by mismanagement, opacity, and the harassment of the female rape survivor and support service providers." UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has advised "the government of Somalia to ensure that allegations of sexual violence are investigated and perpetrators are brought to justice."