Somaliland Court Sentences 3 To Death For Murder, Terrorism
Abdi Hajji Hussein - AHN News Correspondent
Berbera, Somaliland, Somalia (AHN) - A court in Somaliland's town of Berbera on Monday sentenced to death three people found guilty of murder and terrorism.
The judge, Osman Ibrahim Dahir, announced the sentence against Ahmed Ibrahim Farah whom he said confessed to killing a Somaliland police officer and wounding two other policemen in a shooting spree in the center of Bur'o town on June 24.
Three others, including one woman, were sentenced to death in absentia. They were accused of helping Farah. They have eluded arrest.
Three other people, convicted of involvement in the same crime, were given jail terms of one year each.
Dahir, the judge, said that two other women were freed after they were acquitted of criminal charges.
Separately, on Sunday, a military court of Somaliland sentenced two fighters from the Ethiopian rebel group Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) to 10 years imprisonment each. Abdi Hashir Mo'allim and Abdiwali Dhuuh Yusuf were captured in September when ONLF fighters, who had been trained in Eritrea, crossed from Somaliland into Ethiopia after landing on the Somaliland coast, according to a court statemen.
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