BEIRUT: The ISIS group has crucified five people in northeastern Syria for not fasting during the holy month of Ramzan, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) director Rami Abderrahman said on Tuesday.
The victims were brutalised on Monday in al-Mayadin city, where their bodies were left near the ISIS police headquarters with placards around their necks reading “crucified all day and flogged 70 times for breaking the fast of Ramzan”, the activist told EFE by telephone.
TWO WOMEN BEHEADED
The group also beheaded two women on accusations of “sorcery,” the first such executions of female civilians in Syria, Rami Abdel Rahman said.
“The Islamic State group executed two women by beheading them in Deir Ezzor province, and this is the first time the Observatory has documented women being killed by the group in this manner,” he said.
The Britain-based monitor said the executions took place on Monday and Sunday and involved two couples.
In both cases, the women were executed with their husbands, with each pair accused of “witchcraft and sorcery”.
The Observatory said IS has previously decapitated the corpses of Kurdish female fighters during battles, and the jihadist group is reported to have stoned civilian women to death on allegations of adultery.
But the Observatory said this was the first time it had documented the group beheading civilian women, noting that the executions were done publicly.
The Islamic State group has become infamous for gruesome executions and other brutality.
According to the Observatory, IS has executed more than 3,000 people in Syria in the year since it declared its Islamic “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq.
Nearly 1,800 of them were civilians, including 74 children.
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