Syria: IS militants throw alleged gay man from roof, stone him to death
| Publisher | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| Publication Date | 9 December 2014 |
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December 09, 2014
A website affiliated with Islamic State (IS) militants on December 9 posted photographs online that appeared to show militants throwing a man off of a roof and then stoning him to death after one of the group's Islamic courts ruled that he was a homosexual.
A statement accompanying the images said that an Islamic court ruled that the man had "practiced sodomy and must be thrown off the highest point" in the area and then stoned to death.
It said the court was in the Wilayet al-Furat – referring to an area that stretches across the Syrian-Iraq frontier where the Euphrates River flows from Syria into Iraq at the Albu Kamal-Qaim border crossing.
The killing comes after IS militants in November stoned two men to death in Syria, claiming they were homosexuals.
Based on reporting by AFP and AP
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