Somalia: Three men caught with marijuana whipped in Mogadishu

By Aweys Osman Yusuf Jowhar
20, August. 06 ( Sh.M.Network)
The Islamic Courts in Hamar Weyne and Hamar Jajabin, central Mogadishu, sentenced yesterday three men caught with using and selling narcotics to different numbers of whipping.
Since the Union of Islamic Courts took full control of the capital Mogadishu, drug addicts have been hiding with some repented and gave up using narcotics like opium and other types of drugs.
The three Somali men in different ages have been nabbed using Marijuana in center of Hamar Weyne ditrect. They included 19-year-old Mohamed Shogow, a drug user, who was whipped with 17 lashes, 58-year old Mohamed Omar, a drug user, who was lashed with 9 whips and 45-year-old Jeylani Isaaq, a drug dealer, who was flogged with thirty-five whips.Many onlookers gathered at so called Barhadda Yasin (Yasin Square) in Hamar Weyne where the lashing event took place. Viewers told to Shabelle that the punished drug offenders were screaming harshly as they were being beaten by one of the cleric of The Islamists.
The Islamists, afterwards, set the seized marijuana on fire.On another development yesterday, the Islamists in Hamar Weyne alienated a house powerfully held by a man to the owner. Such operations of giving back all properties forcefully seized by other people before the Union of Islamic Courts to their owners have begun in Mogadishu very recently.
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