Mogadishu The Somali government denied Friday that bribes are paid to discharge prisoners in Mogadishu jails. Gen. Abdulahi Moalim, the head of prison guards, told Shabelle that there were never bribes given to either government officials or the prison guards to free indicted prisoners in some of the capital's detentions.   The story surfaced Thursday after some inmates released from Mogadishu's central penitentiary reported that their relatives bribed officials to have them freed. "First of all, the inmates are detained in several jails the Mogadishu, the Somali capital, and it is not right to believe rumors until investigations are carried out. I do not believe that such claims are accurate," he said. Hundreds of suspected Islamists have been detained since the government troops backed by Ethiopian forces embarked on house-to-house search operations in early July. Most of them have been seized from different mosques in Mogadishu. Moalim indicated that 23 inmates who have been captured from Abu Hurera mosque in Mogadishu's Bakara market were doing well. They were arrested in the government's latest mosque raid.