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Somalia: Islamists stone 18-year-old boy to death for rape

October 21, 2014: Al-Shabaab militants in southern Somalia publicly stoned an 18-year-old boy to death after he was accused of rape.

The teenager, named as Hassan Ahmed Ali, was accused of raping a 28-year-old woman at gunpoint and sentenced to death by a local judge, Al-Shabaab’s Radio Andalus reported. 

About 100 people witnessed the killing in the main square of Dharuuro, a village in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, Mohamed Dhubow, a resident, said by phone.

“Dozens of masked fighters” threw stones at the teenager, who’d been buried up to his neck, Dhubow said. “No one could help him.” 

Source: bloomberg.com, October 22, 2014

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