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IS crucifies five people for not fasting during Ramadan
Beirut, June 30
The Islamic State (IS) has
crucified five people in northeastern Syria for not fasting during the
holy Islamic month of Ramadan, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
(SOHR) director Rami Abderrahman told EFE news agency on Tuesday.
The
victims were brutalised on Monday in al-Mayadin city, where their
bodies were left near the IS police headquarters with placards around
their necks reading "crucified all day and flogged 70 times for breaking
the fast of Ramadan", the activist told EFE by telephone.
Abderrahman
also recalled a recent series of murders perpetrated by the IS in Deir
al-Zour province, where for the first time the jihadi group decapitated
women.
IS beheaded a husband and wife in Deir al-Zour for
allegedly practising witchcraft, and another couple was killed on Sunday
in a similar way on the same charge in al-Mayadin.
At least
3,027 people have been killed by IS militants in Syria since the group
proclaimed a caliphate in territories under its control in Syria and
Iraq one year ago, according to figures released by SOHR on Monday.