Islamic State militants in Iraq on Tuesday publicly stoned a man and woman to death on charges of adultery, parading the victims in a public square in the northern city of Mosul, according to witnesses and an Iraqi military official.
The
stoning victims, who were not identified, were in their 20s, witnesses
said. The woman was described as being married. It was not known whether
they had been given a trial, but none was held in public.
Abu
Mohammad al-Lahibi, who runs a clothing store in Mosul, said he had
seen the militants gathering several hundred residents in front of the
government building in Mosul to witness the execution. The couple were
handcuffed, and the woman was wearing a niqab, or full face veil.
“Twelve
ISIS militants were standing there who had bags with them filled with
stones, and they began throwing the stones at them, and after the third
stone the woman was killed,” Mr. Lahibi said. The man died a short while
later, he said.
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