A court in Somaliland has sentenced a Norwegian citizen to death.
The Court of Appeal, which met in Hargeisa, sentenced Saad Jirde Hayd to death.
In doing so, the Court of Appeal reinforced a sentence that a lower court had decreed on Hayd last year.
Hayd had been arrested on charges of spraying poison on a person who eventually died.
The lower court found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to death.
Norway had tried severally to have the death sentence withdrawn. It also wanted Hayd deported to Norway to answer to the charges.
Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide, Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the Norwegian government “condemns all uses of the death penalty.”
She confirmed that the government would continue working the political and diplomatic channels to have Hayd’s death sentence overturned.