WOMAN accused of adultery was stoned to death last week in the first public execution of its kind conducted by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (Isis).
The sentence was imposed by an Islamic court on the woman, who was not named, but said by locals to be in her thirties. It was carried out on Thursday by a frenzied mob of men and women in a town square in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa, which is under jihadist control.
There have been reports of the strict discipline imposed by Isis, but this is believed to be the first photographic evidence of a stoning. [The Sunday Times (£)] Read more
