Terrorism Reporting Centre KE

DPP secures conviction of man for terrorism offences. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has today secured the conviction of a man charged with terrorism-related offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2012. At the Kahawa Law Courts, Ibrahim Hussein Hassan was found guilty of seven counts, including membership in the outlawed terrorist group Al-Shabaab, collection of information connected with terrorism, and possession of articles linked to the commission of terrorist acts. Prosecution proved that on 6th September 2022, at Eastleigh Section III in Nairobi County, Hassan was found to be a member of Al-Shabaab, a terrorist organization as proscribed under Kenya Gazette Notice No. 2326 of 7 April 2015. In his judgment, Principal Magistrate Gideon Kiage held that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. The court found that a forensic examination of a Samsung mobile phone recovered from the accused revealed three videos containing radical extremist terrorist propaganda capable of being used to recruit, train and radicalise young people. "Having established that the Samsung phone belonged to the accused and that its analysis yielded three videos containing radical extremist terrorist propaganda, and in the absence of any reasonable explanation for their possession, this court draws the inference that the accused associated with or was a member of a terrorist group," ruled Hon. Kiage. The court further convicted Hassan on three counts of collection of information contrary to Section 29 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2012, and three counts of possession of articles connected with the commission of a terrorist act. Prosecution, led by Kennedy Amwayi, Principal Prosecution Counsel, and assisted by Fatuma Ahmed, Prosecution Counsel, called 10 witnesses. The case is scheduled for mitigation and sentencing on 29th July 2026. #HakiNaUsawa