An ISIS militant has murdered his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa, according to human rights groups.
Citing local sources, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the 20-year-old man killed his mother, Leena al-Qasem, on Wednesday near the post office building where she worked in front of hundreds of people in Raqqa, a main base of operations for the group in Syria, Al-Qasem was known locally as “mother of the mail”.
According to the Observatory, a British-based group that monitors the war through a network of sources on the ground, the woman in her 40s had warned her son that a US-backed alliance would wipe out Isis and had encouraged him to leave the city with her. She was then reportedly detained after he informed the group of her comments.
According to a local resident, the assailant’s mother was originally from Jabla, a town in Latakia that is a regime stronghold. She was Alawite,but married a Raqqa man who divorced her about five years ago. She stayed in Raqqa with her son and daughter, now 20 and 25.
The resident said Isis told people she was killed for apostasy.“This was the first time someone has executed his own mother,” he said. “People are shocked that someone can kill his own mother in such cold blood. He was known to be a bad apple but nobody imagined he would go so far as to kill his own mother. Everybody is asking how they could have brainwashed him so much?
A user known as Abu Mohammed, a founder of RBSS, also reported that the woman was killed after her son accused her of apostasy.
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