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Somalia: Three men caught with marijuana whipped in Mogadishu
Shabelle Media Network
Sunday 20 Aug 2006 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. Mohamed Shogow 19-year old, one of drug users with extremely screaming after being flogged with 17 slashes by Islamist cleric in open ground at Yasin square in Hamar-Weyne district of Mogadishu Saturday August 19 2006. Three alleged with drug dealing inside police station in Hamar-weyne district of Mogadishu and in state of shock after sentencing with several slashes by Islamic Court on Saturday August 19 2006. Jeylani Isaaq, 45-year old, a drug user waiting as he was flogged with 35 slashes by Islamic cleric at Yasin Square known as ‘Barxada-Yaasiin’ while many residents watching in Hamar-Weyne district of Mogadishu city, Saturday August 19 2006. Mohamed Omar, 58-year old, a drug dealer bearing as beaten with 9 slashes in front of many crowded people in Hamar-Weyne district of Mogadishu Saturday August 19 2006. http://www.shabelle.net/news/ne1360.htm
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