The Isis jihadist group has
reportedly beheaded a teenage boy for listening to pop music and shot dead two others for missing
Friday prayers, as part of a krackdown on personal freedoms in
the group's Iraqi stronghold of Mosul.
The incidents, reported by Kurdish media, come with enemy
forces lined up within miles of Mosul and with the group having
suffered repeated military setbacks across Iraq. According to ARA News, a 15-year- old boy named Ayham Hussein was caught during a patrol by Isis fighters, listening to music in
his father's grocery store. A spokesman for the Kurdish Nineveh media center was quoted by ARA News as saying the boy was
listening to "Western music". "He was referred to the Sharia Court, which issued a decision to execute him." The boy was reportedly publicly
beheaded, before his body was handed to his family on Tuesday
evening. It is impossible to verify the report, but Kurdish media seem to
suggest the incident has led to rare public displays of outrage.
The official was quoted as saying it was the first case of its kind documented in Mosul, and there had previously been "no formal decision by the Sharia Court to ban listening to western music". Separately, ARA News also reported that two young men had
been arrested last Friday for failing to attend prayers at the
main mosque in Mosul.
Named local activist Abdulah al- Malla said they were shot dead
outside the mosque on Sunday, adding: "The execution took place
after a member of the Sharia Court read a statement vowing anyone who misses the prayers at the mosque to face the same punishment."
In late January, a 14-year-old was reportedly beheaded on
similar charges. Another activist, Nasser Taljbini, said
his parents were "forced to witness the beheading of their
own son".

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