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2019-06-20 Africa Horn

Kenya court convicts three over Garissa university massacre

[Al Jazeera] A Kenyan court has found three men guilty of abetting al-Shabaab

...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
fighters who carried out a university attack that killed 148 people, mostly students, four years ago.

The convicted face life sentences and will be sentenced on July 3, the first to face justice for the April 2, 2015 attack on Garissa University in northeast Kenya.

Judge Francis Andayi on Wednesday said the three - Kenyans Mohammed Ali Abikar, Hassan Aden Hassan and Rashid Charles Mberesero, a Tanzanian - "were members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group whose members carried out the attack".

Prosecutors had proven "beyond reasonable doubt" that they were involved in a conspiracy for "committing a terrorist act", he said.

Defence counsel Mbugua Mureithi said he would appeal.

The court in the capital, Nairobi, acquitted a fourth person, Sahal Diriye Hussein. A fifth suspect was acquitted earlier this year.

Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi, reporting from Nairobi, said many Kenyans were following the case closely.

"It is [a very sensitive matter because it is] the conclusion of the first major case involving a big terrorism incident and it is going to set a precedent for other cases that are still in court."

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