Al Shabaab Group Stones Man to Death in Central Country

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

16 June 2011

Mahas — Al shabaab has Thursday afternoon stoned a man to death after accusing him of committing a rape, official said.

Sharma’arke Abdullahi Mohamoud was killed in a square in Mahas district of Hiran region as hundreds of local inhabitants to watch the stoning.

An al Shabaab official said that an Islamic court of Mahas district had reached the decision after Mohammed confessed he had forcibly raped a local young girl Deqa Abdulle Nur.

He said the killed man had already married and committed rape and that is why he was stoned to death according to the Islamic religion.

Generally, alleged spies and Christians have been publicly executed. Thieves have had their legs and hands cut off. Women accused of adultery have been beaten and stoned.

In May, the hard-line militants executed two young Somalis accused of being spies in a southern Somalia town.

Militants loyal to Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked group al Shabaab on Wednesday afternoon executed two young Somalis accused of being spies in a southern Somalia town.

In March, al Shabaab, which intends to impose a strict version of Sharia Islamic law throughout war-devastated Somalia, executed a Somali man in the center of war-decimated Mogadishu, charging him with being a spy for the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In October 2010, the hard-line group executed two teenage girls in Beletweyne accused of spying for the Somali government. Some of this article is source from AHN.

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