SOMALIA: EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD

Aden Sheikh Abdi was killed by firing squad in the capital, Mogadishu, after being convicted of murdering a journalist. "His execution is a new chapter for Somalia," said Col. Abdullahi Muse Keyse, a spokesman for Somalia's military court. In July, a Mogadishu military tribunal found Abdi guilty of the murder in 2012 of reporter Hassan Yusuf Absuge, who worked for Radio Maanta in Mogadishu. During his trial Abdi was accused of belonging to the extremist rebels of Al-Shabab. The Abdi case was the first to be actively prosecuted by the Somali government, coming after years of condemnations from rights groups who urged Somali authorities to do more to establish the rule of law and end the killings of journalists.