Syria militants execute woman for ‘adultery’: monitor

Al-Qaeda-linked militants have publicly executed a woman accused of adultery in northwestern Syria, a monitoring group said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that in total 14 people had been executed for alleged adultery or homosexuality in the war-torn country since July, half of them women. It released a video showing fighters from Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, tying up a woman and shooting her in a square in the town of Maaret Masirin in the province of Idlib.

A jihadist accuses the woman of “corrupting the earth, and adultery”.

Quote from the video, as reported by AFP

Islamic law views all sex outside marriage as a punishable crime. Other cases of execution documented by the Observatory include a man accused of adultery who was stoned to death by Al-Nusra Front and other Islamist groups in the town of Saraqeb in Idlib. Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said that more executions might have taken place elsewhere in Syria that were not documented.

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