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November 19, 2009
No. 22114

Somali Woman Stoned To Death After Sentencing By Al-Shabab Court

A Somali woman has been stoned to death for committing what a judge has said was adultery.

The 20-year-old divorcee was executed November 17 after confessing to having had sex with a 29-year-old unmarried man.

Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, the judge for a court created by the rebel group Al-Shabab, says the woman was killed in front of a crowd of some 200 people near the town of Wajid.

It was the second recorded stoning for adultery carried out by Al-Shabab fighters.

Source: Al-Jazeera, November 19, 2009 

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