Justice in the Islamic Emirit of Somalia

Al Shabaab punished four people in Afgoi district of Lower Shabelle region for committing numerous crimes.

• An eighty-year-old man was sentenced to 25 lashes for “viewing indecent films”
• a fifty-five-year-old women was sentenced to 39 lashes for “being a healer who treats ailments believed to be caused by witchcraft” and “practicing un-Islamic ways of healing.”
• A woman was whipped 39 times “for making her husband love her much better than before using witchdoctors in the area”
• a man 60 times for “alleged involvement in drug dealing.” (I wonder if it was khatt)

-Shrimon Issacar

Source: Critical Threats.org