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SYRIA – CONTINUED REPORTS OF STONING OF WOMEN FOR ADULTERY BY
ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS
Two Separate Incidents of Stoning Women to Death in Syria by
ISIS within 24 Hours, for Allegations of Adultery
By Johnlee Varghese – July 20, 2014
Unconfirmed
reports claim that in at least one case, the woman was sentenced
to death as her new husband found that she was not a virgin.
Both
incidents of death by stoning have been reported from Al Raqqa Province.
"The
Islamic State carried out, for the second time in 24 hours, the punishment of
Al Rajem (stoning to death for adultery) against another woman in the city of
Al Raqqa in a square near the Municipal Stadium," an official from NGO Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stated.
The
stoning, which was first reported by the SOHR, has also been confirmed by Al
Jazeera which claimed that the first stoning took place in a public square in
the town of Tabaqa on Thursday evening.
The report
noted that the woman was tried at the Islamic Sharia court, where neither the
witnesses who made the allegation were identified, nor the man - who is said to
be the paramour - was charged.
"Mystery
surrounds the whole thing," Abu Khalil, an activist in Raqqa who runs the
anti-Islamic State group 'Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently', told Al Jazeera America. The group has released a picture of Thursday's stoning.
The second
incident reportedly took place in a town in Raqqa, where a 26-year-old woman -
identified with intials S.H.M.A. - was stoned to death by the ISIS militiants.
The SOHR
report claimed that the woman was executed in public by stoning late in the
night after the Eshaa Salat, which is the last of the five prayers recited by a
practising Muslim. The stoning took place in a popular market and the victim
was a widow.
Raqqa,
since last year, has been established as the de facto capital of the Islamic
State caliphate. Since then, the region has been witnessing brutal punishments
carried out by the ISIS militants under the Sharia law.
The
incidents have been widely criticized on Twitter.
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Syria - ISIS Video Shows Alleged Stoning, Including
by Father, of Woman for Adultery
Islamic State militants fighting in Syria and Iraq have released a
sickening video of a young woman being stoned to death by a group of men -
including her own father.
The shocking footage is understood to have been filmed in the city of Hama
and shows a bearded cleric ranting at the woman in Arabic and accusing her
adultery while she pleads for her life.
The woman turns to her father and begs his forgiveness but he coldly
rejects her, saying he would rather please God. He then turns to the men to
give the signal for his daughter's murder to begin.
Minutes later, as the men rain rocks down upon the helpless woman, her
father steps forward with a large stone and the video fades to black.
It is believed he had been granted the barbaric 'honour' of being allowed
end the life of the daughter he felt had betrayed both him and her religion.
Terror: The bearded ISIS militant orders the woman to be 'content and happy' that she is about to be stoned to death because, he says, her death has been ordered by God. Her father (left) stands next to the extremist
In a separate incident a man was executed in Idlib province in an area
controlled by Islamist groups including the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's official
affiliate in Syria, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks
violence on all sides of Syria's civil war.
It is the first documented case of a man being stoned to death for adultery
since Syria descended into civil war in 2011 and hardline Islamic groups
emerged as powerful players in areas that slipped from government control, the
Observatory said.
The sickening five-minute video emerged on ISIS-affiliated social media
pages this morning. It is not clear when the footage was actually shot and has
not been independently verified.
The exact accusations
against the woman remain sketchy, although the cleric who appears at the start
of mobile phone-filmed clip accuses her of committing adultery.
The militant orders her to be 'content and happy' that she is about to be
stoned to death because, he says, her death has been ordered by God and is
therefore required under Islamic law.
Asking her is she is now willing to 'submit to God' and be stoned to death,
the young woman replies 'yes', before pleading with her father to forgive her.
After initially ignoring her, the man is eventually prompted into
responding by the militant.
'Don't call me father,' he tells his daughter, who responds by asking him
to pray for her.
At this point her father turns to the ISIS fighters, who help him tie a rope
around her and drag her to a pit, where the stoning begins.
ISIS lead Syrian woman to her stoning over alleged
adultery
The
exact accusations against the woman remain sketchy, although the cleric who
appears at the start of mobile phone-filmed clip accuses her of committing
adultery.
As the militants rain down rocks on the defenseless woman, her father steps
forward and picks up the largest rock before using it to strike and kill his
daughter.
The exact moment of her death is not caught on camera as the footage fades
to black moments before her father strikes her.
ISIS militants often use stoning to murder women they accuse of committing
adultery.
Earlier this year the extremists stoned two women to death in Raqqa after accusing them of having sex outside marriage. Both were placed in holes in the ground before a lorry arrived to dump large rocks for the men to use to brutally murder the women.