Hiiraan Online
Wednesday May 9, 2018
MOGADISHU (HOL) - Al-Shabab militants in Somalia have stoned a mother of eight to death for Polyandry on Wednesday.
Hundreds of residents gathered at a public square in the town of Sablale in Lower Shabelle region to watch the execution.
In a statement posted on a pro-Alshabab website, the group's judge said the woman, identified as Shukri Abdullahi Warsame, married 10 men husband while already married to another man, and as a result, was convicted for adultery.
" Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was found guilty of marrying 11 men. Out the eleven two (among one passed away) deforced her, Therefore now she has been a wife of nine men," reads the statement by the militants.
The Al-Shabab judge said his court acted after receiving a complaint from one of the nine men.
The terror group said Warsame have eight children fathered by these men.
"One of her husbands told the court that another man claims to be the husband of Warsame thus decided to lodge a case. When he asked her she confessed to marrying the man," the judge said. "Later during the hearings of the case, seven men claiming to be the spouses of Warsame turned up."
The judge asked the woman if the man's account was true, and says she admitted marrying these men at once.
militants buried Warsame up to her neck and threw rocks at her head until she was pronounced dead.
This is the second female stoned to death by the militants in less than a year.
In late October, the group stoned a 35-year-old woman to death in the town of Saakow for alleged adultery.
Habiba Ali Ishaq, married a second husband while already married to another man.
Al-Shabab runs its own court system as part of its effort to impose a strict form of Islamic law on Somalia.
Ahmed Mohamed Adan
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