Reports say the unknown man was photographed being killed by a masked executioner in a village just outside ISIS' stronghold and de facto capital Raqqa while a large crowd looked on.
ISIS fighters have publicly beheaded a man for allegedly practicing witchcraft
This is the latest in a long line of barbaric executions carried out by the terror group.
Reports
say the unknown man was photographed being killed by a masked
executioner in a village just outside ISIS' stronghold and de facto
capital Raqqa while a large crowd looked on.
Precise
details of the victim's so-called crime are not known, but the charge
of witchcraft and 'invoking magic', and the use of an axe and wooden
chopping block to carry out the beheading do little to counter claims
that ISIS are little more than murderers with a Dark Age view of the
world.
The beheading of the man, who has a long
grey beard, bald head and appears to be in his 60s, took place in a
rural area named Aldbsa, to the west the city of Raqqa.
Photographs
of the execution and the crowds who watched it were released by
ISIS-affiliated media, and were reported by Raqqa is Being Slaughtered
Silently - an anti-ISIS activist group based in the city who document
the terror group's barbarism in its de facto capital.
The
witchcraft execution came just days after images were released on a
blindfolded man was seen being thrown to his death from a building
inside Raqqa after being accused of homosexuality.
