Thursday July 18, 2024
Mogadishu (HOL) - Somalia's Supreme Military Court sentenced the former Hiliwa district police station chief, police officers, and other men on Thursday for the killing of businessman Abukar Ahmed Kaabah outside Mogadishu on February 22, 2024.
In April, the military court handed various sentences to six men, but the defendants appealed.
The Supreme Military Court upheld the death penalty for the police station chief, Abdifatah Mohamed Hassan Qoslaye, and two ex-police officers, Mohamed Abdi Mohamed Qone. Another defendant, Liban Mohamed Ahmed, who was absent, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Furthermore, Mohamed Adawe Ali, Yasin Abdi Jama, and Hassan Mohamed Saeed Dhin-Dhin received seven-year prison sentences, according to Supreme Military Court Chief General Liban Ali Yarow.
During the previous hearings, the court stripped Commander Qoslaye and Qoone of their military ranks and expelled them from the Somali Police Force.