Somali military court said the execution by firing squad on Saturday of Abdirisak Mohamed Barrow Addow and Hassan Nur Ali Farah was free and fair.
“Their execution is a new chapter for Somalia,” said a Somali journalist who asked to be unnamed
Last month a Mogadishu military tribunal found both men guilty of the murder of female journalist Hindiya Hagi Mohamed who worked for the State-run media in Mogadishu.
She was killed in December last year after a bomb planted under the seat of her car was detonated by remote control as she was leaving a university at the time.
Both men were accused of belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked extremist rebels, al-Shabaab, who have staged multiple terrorist attacks across Somalia in a bloody campaign to seize power.
The al-shabaab was pushed out of Mogadishu in August 2011, but they continue to carry out targeted killings in the capital and elsewhere in Somalia.
The killing of media workers often happens in government-controlled areas that reporters generally consider safe.
Journalists in Somalia also look out for attacks from extremists and armed criminals, warlords, and fight through judicial inaction and even outright hostility from the government.
