Syria man stones daughter to death in IS video

October 21, 2014 19:22

In a video posted by the Islamic State group today, an elderly Syrian is shown to have taken part in stoning his daughter to death for alleged adultery. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the execution took place in August or September in an IS-controlled rural area in the east of the central province of Hama.

It was the latest in spate of videotaped executions that the jihadists have posted on social media as they impose their extreme version of Islamic sharia law across a swathe of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.

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