The High Court presided over by Hon. Lady Justice Lilian Mutende has issued interim stay orders against the release and grant of remission of Mohammed Abdi Ali alias Abu Fidaa pending hearing and determination of an application filed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Abu Fidaa was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment on the 22nd April, 2024 for various terrorism offences and the sentence is to run from the date of arrest which was 29th April, 2016.
He was due to be released on Monday, 29th April, 2024.
“He was due to be released on Monday, 29th April, 2024. Inter parte hearing of the application has been fixed for the 29th April, 2024 at 9am.”
Magistrate Martha Mutuku, who sentenced Fidaa to 12 years in prison on Monday, said she took into account the convict's eight years in prison.
Fidaa had been found guilty of connecting young people with other ISIS fighters in Libya.
In 2016, he was also found to be planning the establishment of an ISIS caliphate in Kenya and the rest of East Africa.
Fidaa had been charged alongside Nuseibah Mohammed Hajji, alias Umm Fidaa, who was acquitted on April 12, 2024, due to insufficient evidence.