Jihadists Stone Woman To Death For ‘Adultery’

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July 18, 2014 5:00 PM

The stoning was carried out immediately the sentence was passed on the woman

A woman accused of committing adultery in the northern Syrian province of Raqa has been stoned to death by Jihadists.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, this will be the first “execution” of its kind by the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, which has proclaimed the establishment of an Islamic "caliphate" dominating Syria and Iraq.

The observatory said, "The Islamic State carried out its first sentence of death by stoning against a woman in Tabaqa, accusing her of adultery,"

The report was confirmed by an activist Abu Ibrahhim, who said the stoning took place in a public square in the Tabaqa market area on Thursday evening.

"This is the first time that this has happened here," added Abu Ibrahim.

A second activist Hadi Salameh, said the woman was reportedly in her thirties, but that few details were known about her except that she was killed after sentencing by an IS religious court.

"The situation is unbearable. Stoning is the worst punishment history has known. A quick death is more merciful," Salameh spoke to journalists via the Internet, using a pseudonym for security reasons.

"The woman's family did not know the sentence was going to be carried out at this time," said Salameh.

He said residents are "terrified" of IS, but fear the consequences of reacting to its harsh methods.

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