Mogadishu - Somalia's al-Shabaab militants said on Wednesday they had
stoned an 18-year-old man to death for raping a woman at gunpoint in one
of their strongholds in the southern Lower Shabelle region.
The group, which pledges loyalty to al-Qaeda, has been losing territory in an
offensive by African and Somali troops, but has been determined to
demonstrate its authority over areas it still controls.
Al-Shabaab said the man raped a 28-year-old woman at gunpoint in the
outskirts of her village three days before he was killed on Tuesday.
"This shows we have the power to sentence anyone who breaks Islamic law",
Sheikh Mohammed Abu Abdalla, the self-styled al-Shabaab governor for the
region, told Reuters on Wednesday.
Al-Shabaab said the woman would receive a two-year-old heifer, the price of
a dowry payment in the area. More @ m.news24.com/news24/Africa/News/Somalias-Shabaab-stones-man-to-death-for-rape-20141022
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