Somalia President Signs Islamic Sharia Bill into Law

ICC Note

The Sharia law has now officially become the law of the land in Somalia . This is going to further restrict freedom of religion and other basic human rights.

05/13/2009 Somalia (Xinhua)-Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Wednesday signed into law a parliament-passed bill introducing the Islamic Sharia law in Somalia as eight people were killed and fifteen others were wounded in fresh fighting that erupted in Mogadishu between government forces and Islamist fighters.

President Ahmed said since Somalia has an Islamic law he sees no reason for the continuation of hostilities in the country where nearly a week of clashes raged between the government forces and allied Islamist fighters from the hardline Al-Shabaab movement and Hezul Islam faction.

The Somali parliament unanimously endorsed the implementation of the Islamic Sharia law in the war-torn country last month.

The introduction of the sharia law has been a key government promise and a demand of the armed opposition groups who rejected the passing of the Sharia bill by parliament as a plot.