Somalia’s military court carried out death sentences against three Al-Shabaab members at dawn on Thursday, shooting them by firing squad inside Mogadishu’s central prison.
The condemned men — Qudama Hamza Yusuf, Abdi Hassan Roble and Ibrahim Omar Shama’un — were found guilty of a string of targeted killings in the capital and in the neighbouring Lower Shabelle region, according to state-run Somali National Television.
Somalia’s Armed Forces Court continues to impose and enforce capital punishment despite repeated appeals from international partners and human-rights groups for a moratorium while the country overhauls its still-unrevised 1964 penal code.
Al-Shabaab, which has fought the federal government for more than 16 years, routinely attacks security personnel, officials and civilians across the Horn of Africa nation.