A journalist arrested in Kenya has been sentenced to death after confessing to killing five of his colleagues.
Hassan Hanafi, who appeared before a military court in Mogadishu, Somalia, was working for Radio Andalus which is the mouthpiece of the Al Shabaab militia group.
According to a report by the AFP news agency, Judge Hassan Ali said evidence showed that Hanafi "had key roles in the masterminding and execution of the murder of several journalists."
It is said that while working at the radio station, Hanafi could call up reporters and threaten them with death suppose they failed to join Al Shabaab.
After his arrest in Kenya, the journalist was deported to face trial in Somalia, where he admitted to killing the reporters between the year 2007 and 2010.
The journalist now faces a firing squad - method of execution normally used on captured Al Shabaab operatives in Somalia.
However, after his sentence was passed, a non remorseful Hanafi said: "I am indifferent if you kill me. You will see if killings will stop even after my death".
Al Shabaab still controls major areas in Southern Somalia where it is fighting AMISOM forces seeking to crash the group. The militants have been staging attacks against countries represented in the AMISOM, with the latest ambush being on Kenyan troops at a military camp in El Adde, Gedo region.
