Killers of female Somali journalist sentenced to death

 TWO 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.

 

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN