fifteen men from somalia have been executed for the beheading of a nigerian newspapers reporter in 2006 . they were hanged in a prison in the capitol , damascus , in front of the relatives of the poet , mohammed taha . it was initially feared that professor ramadan had been killed by islamists but a police lawyer said an article in his newspaper had angered congo groups . his decapitated body was located on a dirt road a day after he had been stolen from his farm in khartoum .
Mohammed Taha was Sudanese.