Malaysian man sentenced to 15 years' jail for assisting Al-Shabaab terrorist group


KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A Malaysian man known as Ahmad Mustakim Abdul Hamid has been sentenced to 15 years' jail by a Somali military court in Mogadishu for assisting the Al-Shabaab terrorist group in the Horn of Africa country.

The Press Attaché of Somalia's Embassy in Malaysia Abdimajit M. Osman - in a phone interview with Bernama on Thursday (Sept 23) night - said that the sentence was read out by Colonel Hassan Ali Nur Shuuto, Chairman of the Armed Forces Court.

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