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Somalia: Four executed for 'spying'

Execution by firing squad in Somalia
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September 29, 2014: the militant group Al-Shabaab executed four young men in the town of Barawe after alleging them to be spying for the Federal Government of Somalia and security agencies.

“These men have admitted that they were spies working for the Intelligence unit of the apostate government,” an unnamed Al-Shabaab judge said through voice speaker.

The four young men – Hassan Haji Awoow, 27, Mahdi Hassan Isse, 26, Iidle Mohamed Hassan, 18, and Ahmed Mohamed Adan, 42 – were all executed by a masked firing squad of Al-Shabaab fighters.

The execution occurred at an open field where hundreds of residents including children and women were called to watch as the execution was taking place. According to sources in Barawe who spoke with RBC Radio, the four men were arrested in Barawe in August. 

Source: Radio Mustaqbal/Radio RBC/Somalimemo Online, September 30, 2014

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