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Al Shabaab members who have been convicted of murdering a female Somali
journalist have been sentenced to death by the military tribunal of
Somalia last Sunday.
Liban Ali Yarow, the chief of Somali military court said evidence
brought in support of the case showed that they had execution role of
Hinda Hajji Mohamed, female journalist killed in car bomb on December
3, 2015.
Hinda who worked for the state media has been killed in a bomb
attached under the seat of her private car which exploded out Turkish
embassy building in Mogadishu’s KM4 area.
Abdirisack Mohamed Barrow, 28, and Hassan Nur Ali Farah, 37, were
sentenced to death penalty, after the court has found them guilty of all
charges against them, according to Judge Yarow who announced the
verdict.
Four other co-conspirators have been sentenced to jail terms, two
of them life in imprisonment by the Somali military tribunal for their
role of the journalist murdering.
Early this month, the court has sentenced Hassan Hanafi, Al
Shabaab journalist to death for planning the deaths of five media
workers who were killed in Mogadishu between 2007 and 2011. Mandera
quarry terror attack that left 14 dead.
On July 7, 2015, workers at the quarry were killed by fighters of
the al Qaeda-linked terror group as they slept. Dubow is “armed and
dangerous”, read a poster the National Police Service circulated on
social media on Friday. He is believed to have returned to Kenya from
Somalia.
On February 26, Kenyan security agencies placed a Sh8 million
bounty on four terror suspects believed to have been behind attacks on a
bus and a quarry in Mandera.
Abdullahi Issak, Idriss Issack, Ahmed Uweys and Mohamed Shide
allegedly planned the November 2014 ambush on Makkah Bus that left 28
dead. They have also been linked to the December 2014 killing of 36
quarry workers in the county.
Mandera county ordered all quarries closed immediately to save
workers from terror attacks. More than 3,000 people, mostly
non-residents, rely on the mines for upkeep.
Quarry workers started leaving Mandera town after the order.
