Somalia Gets The First Forensic Lab To Handle Female Assault Cases

Financed by Sweden in participation with the United Nations Population Fund, the Puntland Forensic Center has been furnished with machines and research facility gear that can create auspicious outcomes.

As per the Puntland Attorney General Mohamud Hassan Aw-Osman, there is an increase reports of assault and the recently opened facility will assume a critical part in uncovering this reality.

The facility will also end the delay of justice delivery especially when evidence will have to be sent abroad for testing, he added.

The UNFPA Representative for Somalia Nikolai Botev said the facility will exonerate innocent persons accused of sex crimes.