Two men who gang-raped and killed a 12-year-old girl in Somalia were publicly executed by a firing squad this morning that was chosen by the girl's father. Aisha Ilyaas Aden was abducted at a market, raped and strangled to death near her home in Galkayo, Puntland region, in February last year. The seemingly never-ending violence against women and girls, where men can evade any responsibility for what they do, has to end.' Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region passed the country's first Sexual Offences Law in 2016, which criminalises rape, sexual harassment and online sexual offences. Campaigners say police are either unaware of violence of women or do not see it as a serious crime, which deters women from reporting abuse.

Source: Daily Mail February 11, 2020 13:26 UTC