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Syria - ISIS Video Shows Alleged Stoning, Including
by Father, of Woman for Adultery
Islamic State militants fighting in
The shocking footage is understood to have been filmed in the city of
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.
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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
It is the first documented case of a man being stoned to death for adultery
since
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
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.
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.
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