Terrorist Convicted of Murder Executed !

Hassan Hanafi

This is the moment a terrorist convicted of murdering five journalists was tied to a wooden post before being executed by a Somali firing squad. Hassan Hanafi, a former media officer for the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, was tied up at a police academy square in the capital Mogadishu today before being shot. He was sentenced to death by military judges in March having been extradited from Kenya a year ago following his arrest in 2014.


Hassan Hanafi, a former media officer for the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, was sentenced to death last month
The 30-year-old was tied to a wooden post before a Somali firing squad opened fire in the capital Mogadishu
Hanafi was widely known for arranging news conferences in the years when al Shabaab militants controlled the cit