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Syria – Alleged “Adultress” Survives Militant Stoning
Militants carried out the punishment and “stoned her
until they thought she had died.” But just as they had stopped pelting her with
stones, the woman stood up and tried to flee. (File Photo: AP)
AFP, Beirut - 30 January 2015
A Syrian woman stoned by the militant Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) group for alleged adultery and left for dead has miraculously walked
away from the brutal punishment, a monitor said Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militant group sentenced the
woman to be “stoned for adultery” in the town of Raqqa, the ISIS stronghold in
northern Syria.
Militants carried out the punishment and “stoned her until they thought she had
died,” said the Britain-based monitor.
But just as they had stopped pelting her with stones, the woman stood up and
tried to flee.
“An ISIS militant was about to open fire at her when an Islamist jurist
intervened and stopped him saying it was God’s will that she did not die,” said
the Observatory, without specifying when it happened. The ISIS jurist told the
woman she can walk free but that she must “repent”.
According to the Observatory, at least 15 people, nine of them women, have
been executed by militants in Syria, including al-Qaeda-linked militants, since
July for alleged adultery and homosexuality.
ISIS and al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s Syria branch, hold large swathes of
Syria and have imposed a brutal version of Islamic law in territory under their
control.