Isis fighters throw another 'gay' man off a tower – and stone him to death when he survives fall

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Andrew Feinberg

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Isis fighters threw a man accused of homosexuality from a building and stoned him to death when he survived the fall, a Syrian monitoring group has claimed.

The man was reportedly thrown from a tower in the Syrian city of al- Tabaqa, west of the group’s defacto stronghold of Raqqa, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The Observatory collects information from activists living in Isis-controlled territories.

The killing reportedly took place in front of a huge crowd of people gathered below the building on Tuesday.

Photographs show a blindfolded man being held by militants at the top of a building. He is then thrown and can be seen lying on the floor in front of a large crowd.

Rami Abdurrahman, the SOHR director, told The Independent the man was aged between 25 and 30-years-old. He said the man is believed to have survived the fall, but was then stoned to death by fighters.

This brutal narrative is becoming increasingly familiar. Disturbing pictures showed two men accused of homosexuality also being thrown off buildings in Raqqa in early and late February.

The extremist group regularly shares horrific images of punishments being carried out, with the most recent showing a man accused of stealing having his hand amputated.