Two men were
pushed off the roof of a 4-storey hotel by Islamic extremists
because they were gay, ANSA learned Wednesday.
Hawass Mallah, 32, and Mohammed Salameh, 21, were
sentenced to execution by a judge in July in the ancient Syrian
city of Palmira, now controlled by ISIS.
During the trial one of the men was asked by the judge if
he felt satisfied with the sentence given that death would help
absolve him from his sin.
The story of the men was recounted to ANSA by Omar, who
had witnessed the event before escaping to Reyhanli in Turkey.
He said the men's hands were tied behind their backs
before they were thrown off the roof to their deaths.
Notorious for the brutal punishments given out to their
enemies, ISIS reserves some of its most barbaric practices for
those it presumes to be homosexual.
At least 36 men have been killed for alleged sodomy in
Iraq and Syria, Human rights group OutRight Action International
said.
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