31 May 2017: concerned about the state of prisoners in Mogadishu’s two main prisons, Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmaajo” has appointed a special commission to assess the state of prisoners in the Central Prison and the Criminal Investigation Centre. ...
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31 May 2017: Al Shabaab occasionally hands out harsh sentences to persons convicted of sexual related offences including adultery, fornication and homosexuality in the areas under its control in Somalia. In this framework, Al Shabaab fighters in Somalia stoned a ...
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May 2017: the military court in Bari region sentenced 7 al-Shabaab suspects to death who got arrested in possession of bomb-making materials and involvement in assassinations plots in Galkayo city. (Source: Garowe Online)
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27 May 2017: a Somali court sentenced five men to death after they were caught with a vehicle laden with explosives, a court official said, a rare successful prosecution in a country where bombings by the Islamist insurgency are increasing. ...
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Agreement signed in Rome, on 26 May 2017, to limit executions in Egypt, Somalia and Tunisia with calls for international law and training of lawyers. “Containing the death penalty in time war on terrorism in Egypt, Somalia and Tunisia.” This ...
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25 May 2017: a Somali military court executed an Al-Shabaab militant behind the killing of a senior security officer in Middle Shabelle region mid 2016. Deputy prosecutor Mumin Hussein Abdullahi said that the court carried out his execution by firing ...
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19 May 2017: an Egyptian criminal court sentenced eight alleged Muslim Brotherhood members to death for attacking a police station in 2015, local media reported. The death sentence was passed by a court in Damanhur and requires the approval of the nation’s grand mufti, according to Egypt’s ...
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18 May 2017: a Somali military court has executed a man who was sentenced to death on 14 March 2017 to be involved in a car bomb attack at garden market in Waberi district in Mogadishu. Addressing reporters at the ...
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18 May 2017: Somalia’s Al-Shabaab publicly cut off the right hands of two men after a sharia court convicted them of breaking into a shop and stealing about $500, the al Qaeda-linked group said. The two men had confessed to ...
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A two-day seminar (15/16 May) was held in Cairo, Egypt, on the presentation of the project “Containing the death penalty in times of war on terrorism” by the association Hands Off Cain and financed by the EU Commission. The meeting, ...
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