Hiiraan Online
Wednesday June 21, 2017
Prisoners at Mogadishu Central Prison watch as a guard walks pass their cell in December 2013.© Tobin Jones
Mogadishu (HOL) - A Somali military court has sentenced one suspected Al-Shabaab militant to death and two others to life imprisonment for killing a prominent religious scholar in Baidoa late last week.
The Chairperson of the Military Court, Col. Hassan Ali Nur (Shute) rendered the court decision and sentenced Mohamed Aden Ali Barrow, an Al-Shabaab militant to death for shooting Sheikh Mohamed Madeer dead inside a Mosque.
Nur added that two other accomplices in the murder were given life sentences for their role in the murder.
Sheikh Madeer was an electorate delegate in the last Federal election.
The trio was arrested by Southwest Regional State forces shortly after the murder of Sheikh Madeer in Baidoa, the administrative capital of Southwest state in Somalia.
The Military Court in Somalia has condemned several Al-Shabaab militants to death or lengthy prison sentences in the past few years despite the militant insurgency group increasing their attacks on government and civilian targets in the country.