The woman, Lul Ali Osman Barake, had been charged along with Ibrahim for "offending state institutions" and had also been sentenced to a year in prison but the charges against her were dropped.
At the time he was detained Ibrahim had been researching sexual violence in Somalia which is how he happened to interview the woman. Although he had not published nor broadcast the story he was found guilty of "making a false interview" and "entering the house of a woman whose husband was not present".
"After having seen the way the March 3 verdict against the journalist was done, and having seen that the appeals court ordered the release of the rape victim and that the journalist remain in jail for six months without giving proper reason, the supreme court here decides to fully release the journalist Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim from prison," the judge said as the court quashed all the charges against Ibrahim reported the newspaper The Guardian.
Ibrahim walked out of prison a free man this past Sunday.
