Al-shabab flog Somali man on rape charges

Muqdisho———The Al-Qaeda linked Al-shabab group has flogged a Somali man in public after a court run by the group has convicted him of the rape charges leveled against him on Saturday.

 

The whipping took place in Galhareri, a town in central Somalia as the man was given 100 lashes in an open area where the group’s judge read the verdict before masked men started beating the man from the back.

Saeed Ali Roble was declared guilty of raping a woman named as Sadiya Dahir Ali. The condemned man was sentenced to have 100 lashes in accordance with the Islamic sharia in view of the fact that has never got married. A married man would have gotten death penalty.

Despite losing most its key strongholds, Al-Shabab still controls large swathes in south and central Somalia where the group carried out numerous executions, amputations, stoning and floggings on suspected spies, thieves and adulterers.

 

Rights groups often accuse the group of administering arbitrary justice and severely restricting basic rights by carrying out targeted killings including beheadings and civilian executions.

 

Al-shabab is waging a deadly guerilla war against the government and African Union forces across Somalia. The allied African Union and Somali troops have launched a multi-pronged offensive which saw militants pushed out strategic towns and villages.