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IRAQ – ISIS STONES ANOTHER WOMAN TO DEATH IN A WAVE OF RETALIATORY EXECUTIONS
Website shows disturbing photos and videos. Gay men are thrown off a tower to their death. Accused additional men are crucified.
In
Nineveh, a woman is shown being stoned to death after she is accused of alleged
adultery
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January 2015 - The London based Syria Observatory for Human Rights said: “Isis
is sending a message to all people living under its control, to say: 'This is
what will happen to any opponent,” the IB Times reported.
The Isis militant
group has reportedly carried out a seemingly unprecedented string of public
executions – including throwing men accused of being gay off towers, stoning a
woman accused of adultery, and crucifying at least 17 young men in a 48-hour
period. Disturbing images appeared across Isis-affiliated social media accounts
at the end of last week at an unusually high rate.
Images showing the
executions began to emerge on Thursday, and were attributed to the “Information
Office of the mandate of Nineveh”, a city in Iraq. They claim to show Isis
militants carrying out “hudud”, the system of fixed punishments for what the
group’s courts regard as serious crimes.
The London-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the latest flurry of public
executions came after Isis suffered a string of recent assassinations, and with
their overall military advance across Iraq and Syria.
The monitoring
group said on Friday that it was aware of Isis crucifying 17 young men in the
space of 48 hours, and that it came as a direct retaliation for the deaths of
12 Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian jihadists. In Syria, 11 airstrikes were carried
out near the city of Kobani, destroying a tank and fighting positions, while
others focused on targets near Abu Kamal and Dawr az Zawr.