ISIS crucifies 5 for not fasting during Ramzan

The Islamic State has crucified five people in northeastern Syria for not fasting during the holy Islamic month of Ramzan, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) director Rami Abderrahman told Efe news agency on Tuesday.The victims were brutalised on Monday in al-Mayadin city, where their bodies were left near the ISIS police headquarters with placards around their necks reading “crucified all day and flogged 70 times for breaking the Ramzan fast”, the activist said.

Abderrahman also recalled recent series of murders in Deir al-Zour, where for the first time the jehadi group decapitated women. ISIS beheaded a husband and wife in Deir al-Zour for allegedly practising witchcraft, and another couple was killed on Sunday in a similar way on the same charge in al-Mayadin. 

At least 3,027 people have been killed by ISIS militants in Syria since the group proclaimed a caliphate in territories under its control in Syria and Iraq one year ago.