New Delhi: Media reports say that Somalia’s al-Shabab arrested as many as 100 women for not complying with their fundamentalist dress code. Al-Shabab militants ordered the women to comply with a strict Islamic dress code.
According to a report in BBC, “The women were arrested in Buale, about 300km (185 miles) south-west of the capital, Mogadishu. BBC Somali analyst Mohamed Mohamed says it is rare for al-Shabab to carry out such mass arrests. The Al-Qaeda-linked group controls much of southern and central parts of Somalia. The women were arrested in the market, taken away and warned before being released. Because it was their first offence, they were not punished but they could be whipped in public if caught again.”
The analyst said that the temperature can reach 35C at this time of year and so many women preferred to wear lighter, traditional clothes than those approved by al-Shabab.
Despite its fragmented nature, it has been able to cause major disturbances through bombings and attacks on cities in Somalia and elsewhere - al-Shabaab extended its targeting of the nation of Kenya in 2014.
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