Somalia
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- transitional federal-parliamentary government: there is no permanent national government
- CONSTITUTION
- September 23, 1979
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- there is no national system; a mix of English common law, Italian law, Islamic law, and traditional Somali norms
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- not operational: following the fall of the National Government, many regions reintroduced Islamic law and Somali customary law, with the possibility of appeal
RELIGIONS
Sunni Muslims
From the country
- JULY 5, 2007SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA. GOVERNMENT CARRIES OUT PUBLIC EXECUTION IN MOGADISHU
government forces in Somalia publicly executed two men, one of them a soldier
- MAY 31, 2007SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALILAND CANCELS EXECUTIONS FOR AID WORKER KILLERS
The president of the breakaway enclave of Somaliland commuted death sentences against two men
- APRIL 19, 2007SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA. SOMALILAND CONDEMNS TWO TO DEATH FOR SLAIN AID WORKERS
the Supreme Court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has sentenced two
- JANUARY 21, 2007SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALI JUDGE SENTENCES MURDERER TO DEATH, CITING SHARIAH LAW
the Hiran Regional Court in central Somalia convicted ex-soldier Abdi Sabriye Barre and ordered he be shot to death for killing a man accused of thievery.
- JANUARY 1, 2007SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Somalia has been without central government since 1991...
Somalia has been without central government since 1991...
- DECEMBER 6, 2006SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA. OFFICIAL THREATENS BEHEADINGS FOR NOT PRAYING 5 TIMES DAILY
residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an official said, adding that the edict will be implemented in three days.
- OCTOBER 13, 2006SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA. ISLAMISTS CARRY OUT 2ND PUBLIC EXECUTION
islamic radicals carried out their second public execution in less than a month amid fears of increasing extremist violence in Somalia.
- OCTOBER 5, 2006SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA'S ISLAMISTS ESTABLISH APPEALS COURT
Islamists who control the capital and much of southern Somalia set up an appeals court to rule on the decisions of all clan-based Islamic courts in the capital.
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. UN EXPERT SEEKS END TO DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILDREN
countries where capital punishment is practiced should exempt children under 18 -- or adults convicted while minors -- from the death penalty, a UN human rights expert report said.
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2006SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA. THOUSANDS WATCH PUBLIC EXECUTION IN MOGADISHU
over 6,000 people watched the public execution of a convicted murderer in the Somali capital Mogadishu, the first execution since the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) seized power from an alliance of warlords on June 5.
- JUNE 26, 2006SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA. ISLAMISTS TO STONE RAPISTS TO DEATH
Somalia's newly powerful Islamists said they will stone to death five rapists, in what some fear is the latest sign of a plan to install a hardline Islamic authority like Afghanistan's Taliban.
- JUNE 19, 2006SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA. ISLAMIC COURT CARRIES OUT EXECUTION
the Islamic shari'ah Ifka Halan court executed Ilmi Ba Hasan Adow, convicted of murdering a man in Afgooye, southern Somalia.