Women Stoned To Death For 'Adultery' In Syria As Jihadi Rebels Impose Strict Sharia Law

A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and half buried her in the ground. Then they told residents who had gathered around the scene to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged
adulteress.
None in the crowd stepped forward, said a witness to the event in a northern Syrian city. So the jihadi fighters, mostly foreign extremists, did it themselves, pelting Faddah Ahmad with rocks.

'Even when she was hit with stones she did not scream or move,' said an opposition activist who said he witnessed the stoning near the football stadium in Raqqa, the main Syrian stronghold of the Islamic State group. The July 18 stoning was the second in a span of 24 hours. A day earlier, 26-year-old Shamseh Abdullah was killed in a similar way in the nearby town of Tabqa by IS fighters.

She was also accused of having sex outside marriage, the Associated Press reports. The killings are believed to be the first of their kind in rebel-held northern Syria, where IS jihadis have seized large swaths of territory, terrorising residents with a strict interpretation of Islamic law, including beheadings and cutting off the hands of thieves.

Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi, the activist who witnessed the stoning, told AP that locals were angry to see foreign fighters impose their will on the community. 'People were shocked and couldn't understand what was going on. Many were disturbed by the idea that Saudis and Tunisians were issuing (such) orders,' he said in an interview via Skype.

Ms Ahmad, he said, ''appeared unconscious, and he had overheard that she was earlier taken to a hospital where she was given anaesthesia. The stoning took place after dark, he said, at about 11pm. He could not see blood on the body because of the black clothes she was wearing.''
Ms Ahmad did not scream or shake. She died silently. 'They then took the dead body in one of their cars and left,' he said.
The jihadis recently tied a 14-year-old boy to a cross-like structure and left him for several hours in the scorching summer sun before bringing him down - punishment for not fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.