This archive report was first published on 3 July 2019.
On July 3, 2019, a Kenyan court handed down harsh sentences to three men convicted of the 2015 Garissa University terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 148 people.
One of the convicts, Rashid Charles Mberesero, a Tanzanian national, was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to commit a terrorism act.
His co-accused, Mohammed Abikar and Hassan Edin Hassan, were each sentenced to 41 years in jail, with the court taking into account the four-and-a-half years they had already spent in custody.
The three men were convicted of conspiracy to commit a terrorism act, committing a terrorism act, and being a member of a terrorist group.
