Cases of harrassment, torture, imprisonment, assault and religious persecution in Somalia.

April 29, 2008: (ANS) - Islamic extremists have shot and killed a Muslim convert to Christianity. According to a news release from the Washington, D.C. based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC), the slaying occurred on April 22 in Baidawa, a town 149 miles from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The 29-year-old victim’s name was David Abdulwahab Mohamed Ali. Click here to read more.

April 18, 2008: (Barnabus Fund) - Four Christian teachers, two of them converts from Islam, were murdered by Islamic militants last Sunday, April 13, in Beledweyne in south-central Somalia. Mr Daud Assan Ali (aged 64), Ms Rehana Ahmed (aged 32), both of Somali origin, and two Kenyans were shot and killed when militants stormed the school where the Christians were sleeping. Click here to read more.

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Islamists kill Somalian convert

Four Christian teachers murdered in Somalia