ISIS militants have executed 13 teenage boys for watching the
Asian Cup football match between Iraq and Jordan last week.
The young football fans had been caught watching the game on
television in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which is controlled by the Islamic
State.
The teenagers were rounded up and publicly executed by a
firing squad using machine guns, anti-ISIS activist group Raqqa is Being
Slaughtered Silently reports.
'The bodies remained lying in the open and their parents were
unable to withdraw them for fear of murder by terrorist organisation,' the
group writes on their website.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently is a small activist
collective which secretly documents the shocking violence and oppression ISIS
has brought to their home city.
They said the 13 teenagers were rounded up by ISIS militants
in the Al-Yarmouk district of Mosul, and executed in public.
The boys' 'crime' - breaking religious laws by watching
football - was read out on a loudspeaker before their executions.
The news of the horrifying execution of the teenagers comes
just days after ISIS released a video showing two men being thrown off the top
of a tower block in Mosul.
Charges found against the accused were announced by a masked
Islamic State fighter, using a small handheld radio.
Reading from a list, he declares the men are guilty of
engaging in homosexual activities and should be punished by death, in
accordance with Islamic State's radical interpretation of Sharia law.
The Iraq-Jordan Asian Cup game, which took place in Brisbane,
Australia last Monday, saw midfielder Yaser Kasim, who plays for Swindon Town
in the third tier of English football, give Iraq a 1-0 win.
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