Just before the weekend, the Norwegian citizen was released from prison in Somaliland. On Sunday morning, he landed at Oslo Airport. In April 2019, Saad Jirde Hayd was arrested and charged by the police in the breakaway Republic of Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, with murder. He denies the charges. For three years he has been imprisoned in Somaliland with a death sentence hanging over him. – We have worked for 3 years to get Hayd released. In these years, he has been told several times that the death sentence against him should be carried out, said his lawyers John Christian Elden and Farid Bouras at Elden Advokatfirma on Saturday evening. The Elden law firm writes that after intense negotiations with local authorities and clans, as well as consular assistance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hayd was released. Lawyer Farid Bouras and the son of Saad Jirde Hayd hug each other outside Oslo Airport after landing on Sunday morning. Photo: Espen Alnes / news – Glad he no longer risks the death penalty Head of Communications, Tuva Bogsnes at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is happy that Hayd no longer risks the death penalty. – The Foreign Service has followed and worked closely with this case since he was arrested. The matter has been very serious, resource-intensive and a high priority, says Bogsnes. She also adds that the foreign service has regularly visited Hayd. – we have raised the issue in a number of conversations with local authorities in Hargeisa. The issue has also been raised at a political level on several occasions. Facts about the case against Saad Jirde Hayd Saad Jirde Hayd was arrested late on 4 April 2019 and accused of killing a man in Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa. The two men had ended up in a basket case. Jirde has explained that he was attacked, and used a defense spray – bought at Clas Ohlson in Oslo – to get to safety. The same evening, the man Jirde was in basketball with dies. The police and prosecutors in the breakaway republic of Somaliland believe the defense spray was the murder weapon. Saad Jirde Hayd, who is a Norwegian citizen, has since been in custody in Hargeisa. Twice he has been sentenced to death. Source: Dagbladet/TV 2/NTB Landed in basketak Hayd came to Norway as a refugee in 1995, after the civil war in Somalia. In 2019, he was on holiday in his home country, when he got into an argument with a strange man. Hayd has explained that the man attacked him. The two ended up in a basket roof, and Sayd used a self-defense spray he had bought at Clas Ohlson in Norway. The other man died after the basketball attack, and the police in Somaliland have assumed that the defense spray was the murder weapon. Police believe the other man died from what they believe to be poison that Hayd sprayed on him. Convicted in several courts Hayd was sentenced to death by shooting in the first court. He appealed, but the next court level upheld the death sentence. In October 2021, his case was up in Somaliland’s Supreme Court, with a Norwegian lawyer and a Norwegian diplomat present. The execution date was initially set for 21 November 2020, but postponed after Hayd’s defense team and the Norwegian authorities made it clear that they expected normal legal processes to be followed. Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide at the time was, among other things, in contact with the president of Somaliland. Read more articles about Saad Jirde Hayd here: Norwegian sentenced to death in Somaliland
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