Islamic
State militants fighting in Syria and Iraq have released a sickening
video of a young woman being stoned to death by a group of men -
including her own father.
The
shocking footage is understood to have been filmed in the city of Hama
and shows a bearded cleric ranting at the woman in Arabic and accusing
her adultery while she pleads for her life.
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.
Terror: The bearded ISIS militant
orders the woman to be 'content and happy' that she is about to be
stoned to death because, he says, her death has been ordered by God. Her
father (left) stands next to the extremist
Sickening: The woman is seen pleading for her life before being stoned to death by men - including her father
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 Syria, said the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights, which tracks violence on all sides of Syria's civil war.
It
is the first documented case of a man being stoned to death for
adultery since Syria descended into civil war in 2011 and hardline
Islamic groups emerged as powerful players in areas that slipped from
government control, the Observatory said.
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 ISIS fighters, who help him tie a
rope around her neck and drag her to a pit, where the stoning begins.
Shocking: As the militants rain down
rocks on the defenseless woman, her father (left) steps forward and
picks up the largest rock before using it to strike and kill his
daughter
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.
ISIS militants often use stoning to murder women they accuse of committing adultery.
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.
'I'VE BEEN RAPED 30 TIMES AND IT'S NOT EVEN LUNCHTIME': DESPERATE PLIGHT OF YAZIDI WOMAN WHO BEGGED WEST TO BOMB HER BROTHEL AFTER ISIS MILITANTS SOLD HER INTO SEX SLAVERY
A
young Yazidi woman forced into sex slavery by the Islamic State begged
the West to bomb the brothel where she was being held after militants
raped her 30 times in just a few hours, it is claimed.
The
unidentified woman is understood to have been kept as a prisoner of the
jihadists somewhere in western Iraq having been captured by ISIS during
the Sinjar massacre in early August.
A
group raising awareness of ISIS' persecution of women in the vast
swathes of the Middle East under its control said the woman had
contacted Kurdish peshmerga fighters by telephone to plead for the
brothel to be bombed to put the women held as sex slaves out of their
misery.
Horror: The woman said she had been
raped so many times by ISIS militants (pictured) that she could no
longer use the toilet, adding that the ordeal has been so harrowing that
she plans to commit suicide even if freed
She
allegedly told the fighters she had been raped so frequently that she
could no longer use the toilet, adding that the ordeal has been so
harrowing that she plans to commit suicide even if freed.
Details
of the woman's brutal experience at the hands of the Islamic State
emerged during an interview with Kurdish activists staging
demonstrations in London to raise awareness of the plight of women in
the Middle East.
During an interview with BBC World Service, a man identified as Karam described how a friend embedded with the peshmerga took a phone call from the Yazidi woman.
Describing
the woman as crying on the phone, Karam quoted her as saying: 'If you
know where we are please bomb us... There is no life after this. I'm
going to kill myself anyway - others have killed themselves this
morning.'
'I've been raped 30 times and it's not even lunchtime. I can't go to the toilet. Please bomb us,' he claimed the woman added.
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