Islamic State (ISIS) extremists have executed a seven-year-old boy by firing squad after he was heard swearing while playing football with his friends
The boy’s parents collapsed after their child was shot in front of hundreds of people for allegedly insulting the Caliphate, an area containing an Islamic steward known as a caliph, according to eyewitnesses.
The boy, named locally as Muaz Hassan, was playing in the Naeem Square in the city of Raqqa, Syria, an ISIS stronghold, earlier this week when members of the terrorist organisation, also known as Daesh, walked past and claimed to have heard him swearing and insulting the Caliphate, according ARA News.
The youngster is said to have been arrested and dragged in front of the ISIS-led Sharia Court where he was sentenced to death on charges of infidelity.
He is said to have been murdered by members of Hisbah, a religious police force, on Thursday.
A statement was read before the murder explaining the reasons behind it, eyewitnesses reported.
An ISIS member from the court the boy appeared in said: “Islamic State’s police arrested Muaz Hassan earlier this week in the city of Raqqa, after they heard him ‘cursing divinity’, while playing in the street with his friends.
Daesh has executed hundreds of adults, including civilians, activists, and journalists, in areas of Syria and Iraq under its control over the past two years.
But this week’s killing is believed to be the first time a child has been sentenced to death by the terrorist group in one of its courts.
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