ISIS mutilates 2 in Raqqa
[ARA News] RAQQA – The Islamic State (ISIS) group amputated hands of two of its own militants on Friday, after accusing them of stealing.
Two members of the ISIS-linked Islamic Police, also known as al-Hisba, were charged with stealing a car and military equipment from a weaponry storage centre in Syria’s northeastern Raqqa Governorate–a de facto capital for the ISIS self-declared Caliphate.
“The Islamic State publicly cut off the hands of the two Hisba members in central Raqqa on Friday evening,” local media activist Hassan al-Raqawi told ARA News.
“They were caught in a stolen car earlier on Thursday. The Sharia Court said that the two suspects have also stolen military equipment that belonged to the Islamic State,” the source reported, citing an ISIS member.
ISIS has called on the people of Raqqa to witness the public punishment.
“Hundreds of people gathered in the Market Square of Raqqa City and watched the chopping of the two men’s hands,” an eyewitness told ARA News.
According to activists, by punishing its own militants in public, ISIS tries to show the people of Raqqa that it won’t allow any violations against its rules, not even such violations are committed by its own members.