Somalia's al-Shabab journalist Hassan Hanafi executed

A Somali Journalist who helped al-Shabab to kill five fellow reporters has been executed by firing squad. 

Hassan Hanafi, once a respected broadcaster, was sentenced to death last month by a military court in the capital, Mogadishu. 

He assisted the Islamist militant group by identifying possible targets amongst Journalists between 2007 and 2011. 

He joined its armed wing after working for Radio Andalus, al-Shabab's mouthpiece in Somalia. 


SOURCE: BBC news