RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia executed a Somali citizen, Mohamed Nur Hussein Gacal, on prices of trafficking medicine, particularly cannabis, into the nation. Gacal was amongst 45 Somali nationals sentenced to demise a number of years in the past by a Saudi court docket.
The Saudi Ministry of Inside confirmed that Mohamed Nur was executed in a jail within the southern metropolis of Najran on Sunday.
Hassan Hussein Yusuf, the uncle of the executed man, mentioned he acquired a name from Mohamed, who knowledgeable him that he was about to be executed and was tied to a pole. Hassan additionally appealed for clemency and despatched his regards to Mohamed’s mom.
Somalia’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Aweys Haji Yusuf, acknowledged that the Somali authorities was not knowledgeable about Mohamed Nur’s execution upfront, however efforts are underway to avoid wasting the remaining Somali prisoners on demise row.
The ambassador talked about that they’ve been in touch with Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Inside and the nation’s courts and have shaped a committee to hunt a commutation of the demise sentences to life imprisonment or to request pardons.
The opposite Somali prisoners have appealed to the President of Somalia to intervene and go to Saudi Arabia to assist forestall their executions, as they had been imprisoned alongside Mohamed Nur, who was executed.
The 45 Somali prisoners, arrested at totally different occasions, had been accused of trafficking narcotics, together with cannabis, into Saudi Arabia, a rustic the place the drug is strictly banned.
A few of the households of the Somali detainees in Saudi prisons have claimed that their kids migrated by Yemen to Saudi Arabia and had been compelled to move the medicine into the dominion beneath duress.
It’s unclear how the Somali authorities will handle the demise sentences of the remaining 44 prisoners, who’ve confronted a protracted interval of uncertainty, a few of them being held in jail for practically six years earlier than their executions started.
