(CNN) -- Militants who control parts of Somalia's capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local officials and witnesses in Mogadishu. "Just today, Al-Shabaab dispatched men with whips to the streets around Bakara market and they are flogging any woman who is found not wearing socks," according to a female maize trader at the Mogadishu market, who spoke Thursday. She did not want to be named for security reasons. In the past two days, more than 130 people, including women who were not wearing headscarves and men chewing dried khat leaves, have been detained for violating Al-Shabaab's interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law, according to witnesses and officials.
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Militant group Al-Shabaab imposes strict interpretation of law in areas it controls
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Women violate law by not wearing socks, headscarves and by wearing bras
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"Al-Shabaab dispatched men with whips to the streets," witness says
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Al-Shabaab is considered a terrorist organization by the United States
Earlier this month, Al-Shabaab militants whipped women for wearing bras in an area of northern @placeholder that they control, shocking residents who have been besieged by the ongoing insurgency.