Woman gets 12 lashes in public
Posted by Ashbee | Date: 26 Mar | Topic: Current news
A news story from the Mareeg agency on 23 March:
MOGADISHU (Mareeg)—Al Shabaab insurgents have flogged three people in Bardhere town in Gedo region in southern Somalia, officials said on Tuesday. A Sharia court under al Shabaab administration in the town has sentenced two men and a woman to be flogged.
Sheikh Mohamed Salad, the judge of the court said Halimo Mohamed Fidow has been sentenced to be whipped 12 lashes in a public palace after she has convicted marrying of two men.
Hundreds of people in the town gathered in the police station where the woman and the two men were punished.
