A military court in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland has sentenced four suspects having linked to the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab to death penalty.
The court in the port town of Bosaso, convicted the four suspects with terrorism on Saturday.
Prosecutors accused them of committing several crimes, perpetrating murder, aiding terrorist groups and intimidation.
Puntland authorities have launched a massive crackdown on the network, which is thought to be seeking for safe haven in the Galgala Mountains after it lost strategic towns in the Southern part of the country to AU and Somali troops.
It has put on trial dozens of accused militants in recent months, jailing many of them and sentencing others to death.
Last year, it executed 13 suspected al-Shabab members including a woman, after the military court found them guilty of orchestrating an assassination of a famous scholar Dr Ahmed Haji Abdirahman. But al-Shabab denied that none of them was part of the group.
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