Disturbing and brutal photographs of a man being thrown off a building only to be stoned to death after surviving the fall has been circulating all over the internet and has caused an outrage from international rights group.
The man suspected of being gay was brutalized, blindfolded and was thrown off a seven-storey by ISIS militants. Despite the inhumane torture that the man endured, he was able to survive the fall only to meet his demise when the crowd of onlooker threw stones at him when they found out that he was still alive, according to Daily Mail.
The incident happened late in January at the town of Tal Abyad in Raqqa, an ISIS controlled territory located along the northern banks of the Euphrates river.
The images were obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights through its network of activist within the area. The group also claimed that several photos of the incident were also uploaded by the ISIS militants on the internet, according to Independent.
Before the man was thrown out of the building, images reveal that he was made to sit down on a white plastic chair while two ISIS militant is reading him his "judgment" for the alleged crime of being gay.
In December 2014, the ISIS militant group released their own penal code. The list contains crimes and several methods of punishments which includes crucifixion, stoning and amputation.
Among the many crimes punishable by death are homosexuality and "spying for the unbelievers."
This incident in Raqqa is the latest of the hundreds of human rights violation and public executions carried out by the ISIS group within first months of 2015. On a separate incident, two men accused of acts of homosexuality were also reported to have been thrown off a building in the Iraqi city of Nineveh.