Three men were blindfolded and forced to their knees, before being beheaded publicly by a sword-wielding monster as crowd cheered on each blow in an ISIS attack in an unnamed northern Iraqi city recently. The victims were accused of homosexuality and blasphemy, the Mail online reported.
The photos of the barbaric murders show the blindfolded men kneeling in the centre of a traffic roundabout with a crowd of people looking on as a masked executioner stands by with a long, rusty blade.
After an elderly man uses a microphone to read to the crowd from his notes, the executioner then steps forward with the blade poised above the men’s heads.
Two of the victims were beheaded for engaging in homosexual acts and the third for alleged blasphemy – but there were no images released of the actual beheading.
The jihadist group has carried out hundreds of barbaric executions as it has imposed its brutal version of Islamic law, many of which are photographed or videotaped.
The photos were said to have been taken in Nineveh province – the first to fall to a sweeping IS-led offensive last June – but the exact location was not specified.
Many young men have also been thrown from the roofs of buildings throughout ISIS-controlled areas after being accused of engaging in homosexual acts.
