ISIS militants have executed 13 teenage boys
for watching the Asian Cup football match
between Iraq and Jordan last week.
According 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.
Dailymail reports that 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,'
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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