Somali Court Sentences Two to Death over Rape, Murder of 14-Year-Old Girl

Somali’s Court of First Instance in Bosaso has sentenced two men to death over the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.

Mohamed Abdi Faray and Abdirahman Mohamed Isaq committed the act earlier in 2020 at the Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

The duo confessed to the crime after kidnapping the young girl in Bosaso city earlier this year.

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In recent months there has been an increase in the number of such attacks across Somalia.

The police are currently investigating several cases, including one of a 19-year-old who was gang-raped and thrown off a six-storey building in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu in September.

Several men have been sentenced to death for rape crimes.

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