Monday 13/2/2017, Somalia’s Puntland military court has sentenced seven Harakat Shebab operatives also known as Al-Shabaab to death penalty.
Speaking to media reporters in port town of Bosaso, Abdifatah Haji Adan, the chairman of Puntland military court final verdict on the terror operatives.
Mr. Adan also revealed to the media that the seven who were facing the terror charges themselves confessed to be Al-Shabaab members involved in a spate of attacks in Puntland which especially targeted government officials and army personnel.
The names of the seven men sentenced to death penalty by the military court are:
- Nouradin Ahmed Samatar Deerow, 20.
- Ayoub Yasin Abdi, 32.
- Ali Ismail Ali also called “Ali Gaab”, 20.
- Hassan Adan Hassan, 22.
- Abdihakim Mohamed Aweys, 24.
- Mohamed Yasin Abdi, 17.
- Daud Said Sahal, 18.
The seven were arrested by Puntland security forces in the past few months in Bosaso port town of Bari region, according to military sources and referenced by open sources.
Puntland military court in June 2016 sentenced 43 Al-Shabaab operatives to death by firing squad after they confessed of being fighters for the terror group involved in deadly fighting between Puntland government forces and Al-Shabab group in March of 2016.
