Islamic extremists from the rebel al Shabaab militia in Somalia beheaded a Christian on the outskirts of Mogadishu last month, sources said.
The youn man had converted from Islam to Christianity.
A Somali convert from Islam was paraded before a cheering crowd last month and publicly flogged as a punishment for embracing a “foreign religion,” sources said.
Sofia Osman, a 28-year-old Christian from Janale city in Somali’as Lower Shabelle region, had been taken into custody by Islamic extremist al Shabaab militants in November; the public whipping was meant to mark her release.
Indonesia’s best-known radical cleric went on trial Monday on fresh terrorism charges as the predominantly Muslim nation grappled with a jump in religious tensions and violence, the Associated Press reports.
A mother of four was killed for her Christian faith on Jan. 7 on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia by Islamic extremists from al Shabaab militia, a relative said.
Al Shabaab insurgents control much of southern and central Somalia and have embarked on a campaign to rid the country of its hidden Christian population.
Women living in areas controlled by Somalia’s Islamists say they are increasingly the target of more draconian rules meted out by the rebels bent on enforcing their ideologies, Reuters reports.
A high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges involving the 1995 slaying of a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy. Federal prosecutors said Paul “Cornfed” Schneider admitted that Deputy Frank Trejo was shot and killed at the beginning of a crime spree by two gang associates under orders from Schneider to raise money by committing robberies. Schneider, 41, also was the co-owner of two enormous dogs that mauled a woman to death in San Francisco in 2001. He is expected to be sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy and racketeering in