Mogadishu — A Somali court on Tuesday (February 5th) sentenced a woman who said she was raped by Somali security forces and a journalist who interviewed her to one year in prison, saying they were guilty of offending the honour of state.
"We sentence her for offending state institutions by claiming she was raped," judge Ahmed Aden Farah told the court in Mogadishu, according to AFP. "She will spend one year in prison after finishing the breast feeding of her baby."
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