Somalia: Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen Detain More People in Bu'ale Town

Bu'ale — The Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen in southern Somalia have detained more people accusing of violating the orders of the Islamic administration there in southern Somalia, officials said on Monday.

Reports from Bu'ale, the central town of Muddle Jubba region say that at least 12 young people were captured during operations conducted by the fighters in the town as they were watching things from the mobile phones which banned by the Islamists earlier.

Several women were also among the people arrested during the operations and locals said that the women were detained after the Islamist fighters saw revolving through the town by no having good clothes to cover their bodies adding that the total of the people jailed were 12.

High officials of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen confirmed that most of the people were put in the prison of Bu'ale town in Middle Jubba region in southern Somalia adding that they will be brought before Islamic court in the town for the following days.


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