{"id":24546,"date":"2016-04-12T02:03:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somalia-s-al-shabab-journalist-hassan-hanafi-is\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T02:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:03:01","slug":"somalia-s-al-shabab-journalist-hassan-hanafi-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somalia-s-al-shabab-journalist-hassan-hanafi-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabab journalist Hassan Hanafi is executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A Somali journalist who helped al-Shabab kill five fellow reporters has been executed by firing squad.}<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Hanafi, once a respected broadcaster, was sentenced to death last month by a military court in the capital, Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>He assisted the Islamist militant group by identifying possible targets amongst journalists between 2007 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He joined its armed wing after working for Radio Andalus, al-Shabab&#8217;s mouthpiece in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>More than 25 journalists have been murdered in Somalia since 2007, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.<\/p>\n<p>While he was working for al-Shabab, Hanafi would call up journalists and threaten them with death if they refused to join the militant group, the BBC Somali&#8217;s Mohammud Ali says.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab frequently stages attacks in Mogadishu and other cities, and still controls many rural areas in southern Somalia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11593 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_88562946_hassanrtr-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hassan Hanafi helped identify targets for the Somali militants to kill\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A Somali journalist who helped al-Shabab kill five fellow reporters has been executed by firing squad.} Hassan Hanafi, once a respected broadcaster, was sentenced to death last month by a military court in the capital, Mogadishu. He assisted the Islamist militant group by identifying possible targets amongst journalists between 2007 and 2011. He joined its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24546"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24546"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}