Somalia: Islamic Supremacists Stone Man to Death Before Crowd – Pregnant Woman to Follow After She Gives Birth
– BBC: “Somali adulterer stoned to death”
– “Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.”
– “Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.”
– “An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.”
– “Islamist groups run much of southern Somalia, while the UN-backed government only control parts of the capital.”
– “This is the third time Islamists have stoned a person to death for adultery in the past year.”
– “Al-Shabab official Sheikh Suldan Aala Mohamed said Mr Abdirahman had confessed to adultery before an Islamic court.”
– ” ‘He was screaming and blood was pouring from his head during the stoning. After seven minutes he stopped moving,’ an eyewitness told the BBC.”
– “The BBC’s Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says that if the woman is also killed, her baby would be given to relatives to look after.”
