THE Islamic State (IS) group has released an undated video that appears to show an elderly Syrian man stone his daughter to death for alleged adultery.
A UK-based Syria monitoring group said it took place in central Hama province but could not confirm the date.
The video’s authenticity could not be independently verified by the BBC.
IS is known for employing brutal tactics in areas under its control in Syria and Iraq, including mass killings of religious and ethnic minorities.
The group has increasingly posted video clips online of public executions carried out on people living under its strict implementation of Islamic law, or Sharia, including the beheadings of captured soldiers and foreign journalists.
The UK-based activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), says the woman’s execution is the third of its kind in territories under IS control in Syria.
In the YouTube video, which was posted by IS on Tuesday, a bearded man in military fatigues is seen explaining to the woman that she is being punished for committing adultery.
He passes down her sentence in the presence of an elderly man, believed to be her father.
She asks for his forgiveness, but despite pressure from IS fighters around, he refuses her request.
“I say to every woman: preserve your honour… and I appeal to every father to pay attention to the surroundings your daughter lives in,” the woman says when prompted for some final words before the stoning commences.
