Abdisalam Ismail, a 20-year-old member of Djibouti’s opposition party, was arrested near his home in the Balbala neighbourhood of Djibouti City by the Service de documentation et de sécurité (SDS) on October 21, 2018. He was then taken to the SDS’s headquarters in Ras Dika, where he was held until November 1. During this time, he was interrogated under duress about flyers he distributed three days before his arrest depicting the president, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, sleeping while attending the 2017 summit of the Arab League. He was also interrogated about his political activism within the opposition party RADDE. While held at the SDS’s headquarters, he was denied contact with the outside world. On November 2, he was transferred to Gabode prison pending trial. On December 4, he was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for “insulting the president”. On April 29, 2019, Abdisalam was finally released after completing his sentence.