40 Somali prisoners released from India arrive in Mogadishu

Several Somali prisoners released from India arrived yesterday evening in Mogadishu after completing their sentences in the Asian country for an alleged crime of piracy.

The prisoners reaching 40 landed at Aden Abdulle International Airport and were received by top Somali federal government officials including Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, first deputy speaker of the Lower House Mahad Abdalla Awad among others.

Speaking at the venue, PM Khaire noted “the released prisoners to be part of similar prisoners emancipated earlier from three other countries adding that 70 others who were left behind in India will soon be liberated too.”

On his part, First deputy speaker Awad passed his gratitude to the federal government on their efforts to get back the freedom of countrymen imprisoned in foreign countries.

Late July 2017 114 prisoners were released from Ethiopia accompanied by ambassadors of both countries following agreements between leaders of the two countries arrived in Mogadish marking the successful push by Prime Minister Hassan Khaire to transfer the prisoners to the homeland.

In mid December 2017 a Somali journalist Mohamed Aweys Mudey aka Boqorka Bartamaha, who has been jailed by an Ethiopian court for 27 years was released after the federal Somali government initiated efforts to free him and arrived in Mogadishu. He has already served nearly 4 years of his long prison term.

Early August 2017 Somali Embassy in South Sudan said it has succeeded securing the release of 4 Somali business people who were imprisoned in that country due to an alleged inflation of the market price.

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