Al-shabaab executes four men for “espionage”

[Deeq A.]

Bardera ( PP News Desk) — Al-shabaab group yesterday executed four men in El-ade village in Gedo. The group accused the men of spying for the  Somali intelligence agency and foreign intelligence agencies.

Al-shabaab fighters (A file picture).

Aden Hassan Mohamed and Abdiasis Hassan Abdi were accused of working with the Somali intelligence agency “to which they passed intelligence about Al-shabaab”. Dini Abdulakadir Mohamed and Isse Osman Gelle were accused of “spying for the American Government and the Ethiopian intelligence service respectively”.

The Al-shabaab prosecutor did not present evidence against the four men nor were the defendants given the right of defence. Al-shabaab has lost territories to the Federal Government of Somalia after intense pressure from the Somali Army and AMISOM.

Al-shabaab is known to pressure families to allow their sons to join the proscribed group.  

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