Somalia: Somali Military Courts Violating Rights of Defendants, HRW Says

Somalia's military courts since 2011 have tried hundreds of people outside their legal mandate or in proceedings that fall short of international standards for a fair trial, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Thursday (May 22nd).

"More than a dozen of those convicted over the last year have been sentenced to death and executed, magnifying the harm to basic rights," the report said.

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