A former journalist was executed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu Monday after he killed five other journalists.
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Hassan Hanafi Haji was killed by a firing squad in Mogadishu after he joined the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab and killed several journalists who did not report favorably about Islamic extremist rebels.
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He forced media outlets to “practice self-censorship for security reasons,” the New York Post reports.
Hanafi is tied to a wooden post before being executed by firing squad. (Photo: MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP/Getty Images)
Death by firing squad is the only form of execution in the country.
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