RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia executed a Somali citizen, Mohamed Nur Hussein Gacal, on expenses of trafficking medicine, particularly cannabis, into the nation. Gacal was amongst 45 Somali nationals sentenced to dying 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, stated he obtained 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 save lots of the remaining Somali prisoners on dying row.
The ambassador talked about that they’ve been involved with Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Inside and the nation’s courts and have fashioned a committee to hunt a commutation of the dying 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 completely different instances, had been accused of trafficking narcotics, together with cannabis, into Saudi Arabia, a rustic the place the drug is strictly banned.
A number of the households of the Somali detainees in Saudi prisons have claimed that their youngsters migrated by means of Yemen to Saudi Arabia and had been pressured to move the medicine into the dominion beneath duress.
It’s unclear how the Somali authorities will deal with the dying sentences of the remaining 44 prisoners, who’ve confronted an extended interval of uncertainty, a few of them being held in jail for almost six years earlier than their executions started.
