Puntland military court officials visit Puntland jails

Officials from Puntland’s military court has paid visit to several jails in Bossaso town.

The chairman Puntland’s military court, Abdifatah Haji Adan said some detainees kept in the jails without trial.

“ we had several complaints from people accusing the government keeping several suspects behind the bars without trial so we decided to visit the cells in order to know who was kept there without case” said Adan.

Puntland arrested dozens of Al-Shabaab suspects who were accused of being involved in insecurity actions.

In 2013, Puntland 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.

Puntland newly elected leader Abdiweli Mohamed Ali vowed to fight against the insecurity that has been rising in the region for the past years.