This was while Mr Abdi was detained for almost two-and-a-half years pending his removal to Somalia.
Mr Abdi was found lying close to a crashed blue people carrier just after 01:00 on Sunday.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the UK government breached Mustafa Abdi's right to liberty.
But they rejected Mr Abdi's complaint that his removal to Somalia would put him at risk of ill-treatment.
Abdi Farah Shirdon, an economist who ran an import business in neighboring Kenya, was named prime minister Saturday.
Mr Abdi and his father, Omar, were members of Edinburgh Central Mosque, where Mr Abdi senior was a volunteer.
Mohammed Abdi Farah, 19, and Amin Ahmed Ismail, 18, were killed on the Fishermead Estate in May last year.
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This theory is based on the secret documents that were discovered, according to the prosecution, among Mr Abdi's possessions.
Three weeks ago Mr Abdi made a curious recantation, presumably under extreme pressure.
Hassan Osman Abdi (29) was a journalist and director for Shabelle Media Network, a private radio and television network in Somalia.
His friend and training partner Abdi Abdirahman, the runner-up in the 2007 Half, kept encouraging him during runs in Flagstaff, Ariz.
What, many outside the courtroom would like to know, was Mr Abdi doing with such documents, and where were they destined?
Mohammed Omar Abdi, 25, died of gunshot wounds after what was thought to have been a gang-related incident in the Willowbrae area.
Somali prime minister spokesman Ahmed Adan and District Commissioner Abdi Warsame said no one in the convoy was hurt in the attack.
Mohammed Abdi Farah, 19, and Amin Ahmed Ismail, 18, were killed in an alley on the Fishermead Estate on 26 May 2011.
Mohammed Abdi Farah, 19, and Amin Ahmed Ismail, 18, were shot in a row on the Fishermead Estate in May last year.
"Abdi is 35 going on 18, " said Dave Murray, his longtime coach.
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Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon said the commission will investigate the case.
Also Abdi Abdirahman, he's a favorite in the 10, 000 meter, the man they call the Black Cactus, which is a pretty awesome nickname.
Mohammed Abdi Farah, 19, and Amin Ahmed Ismail, 18, were both shot in the head in Milton Keyes on 26 May last year.
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Mr Abdi's ideas about non-co-operation have dominated politics since last summer, when the Friday-prayer leader in Isfahan became the first important reformist to resign.
Mr Abdi, remark the conspiracy-theorists, could not more surely have raised reformist hopes, and then destroyed them, if he had been on the conservatives' payroll all along.
But showing me round the camp was a resolutely optimistic 25-year-old called Osman Abdi Bare, who arrived here with his mother in 1991 and has lived here ever since.
The BBC's Abdullahi Abdi, reporting from Kenya, says that the number of suicide attacks in Mogadishu has decreased since the withdrawal of al-Shabab from the capital in August 2011.
"This Kenyan action may give the al-Shabab hardliners the excuse they needed to justify a strike against Kenya, " said Rashid Abdi, a Somalia analyst with the International Crisis Group.
Mr Abdi was arrested on November 4th, 23 years to the day after he, as a youthful Islamic revolutionary, had helped to take over the American embassy in Tehran.
During his defence, Behrouz Geranpayeh, one of Mr Abdi's co-defendants, obligingly denounced some well-known reformists who had, he said, commissioned and financed the poll on relations with the United States.
But for Miss Abdi Nur, the opportunity to make a financial contribution to the country where she sought refuge feels as unlikely now as it did when she arrived five years ago.
Abbas Abdi, a reformer who was once a radical, having led the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979, accuses his movement of dancing on the rooftop before its building was completed.
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