이슬람 수니파 무장조직 '이슬람국가'(IS)가 시리아에 서 동성애자 10명을 처형했다고 시리아인권관측소(SOHR)가 21일(현지시간) 밝혔다.
SOHR에 따르면 IS 대원들은 이날 시리아 북부 라스탄에서 동성애자라는 이유로 남성 7명을 총살했고 흐레이탄에서 같은 이유로 남성 2명과 소년 1명을 처형했다.
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IS executes 10 people accused of being gay in Syria: monitor
The Islamic State jihadist group executed nine men and a boy it accused of being gay in central and northern Syria on Monday, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the jihadists shot dead seven men in Rastan, a town in Homs province of central Syria, “after accusing them of being homosexual”.
IS also executed two men and the boy in the town of Hreitan, in the northern province of Aleppo, for the same reason, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
He said the executions were carried out in public, but that IS fighters destroyed any cameras that had been used to film the killings.
IS has used brutal violence to enforce its rule in the so-called “caliphate” it declared in territory straddling Iraq and Syria.
Along with homosexuality, witchcraft and loyalty to President Bashar al-Assad are also considered capital punishment offences in IS-controlled areas.
In previous cases, IS has beheaded alleged homosexuals or thrown them from rooftops.
According to the Observatory, IS has executed more than 3,000 people, including at least 1,800 civilians, since it announced its caliphate in June 2014. (AFP)
