...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...of three men convicted of raping, mutilating and killing of a teenager early this year.
Abdifatah Abdirahman Warsame, Abdisala Abdirahman Warsame and Abdishakur Mohammed last May sentence death for the rape and murder of Aisha Ilyas.
The second-degree court has today announced that the ruling of the first-degree court fair and justice saying the men committed the heinous crime.
After the ruling of the court, the lawyers of defendants have confirmed that they will seek an appeal to the third-degree court which reach the final decision of the court.
Aisha was kidnapped from a market in Galkayo town in February.
Her body was discovered the next morning and a post-mortem found that she had been strangled to death after being gang-raped.
The atrocity led to street protests as well as an angry reaction on social media with calls for the Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
government to take action.
The ruling is extremely significant ‐ rape cases in Puntland are usually settled out of court, following the intervention of traditional elders who force the perpetrator and survivor to marry some cases.