Ruqia Hassan is the first female journalist to be killed by ISIS.
Ruqia Hassan
London: ISIS has executed what is believed to be the first female citizen journalist for reporting inside its territory, Syrian media has reported. The execution of Ruqia Hassan marks the fifth journalist who reported on Isis to be killed since October, according to Syrian journalism organisation, Syria Direct.
Ms Hassan, who also went by the pseudonym Nisan Ibrahim on social media, was a reporter and activist for Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a group exposing human rights abuses from within Syria. Abu Mohammed, founder of RBSS, tweeted on Saturday that Ms Hassan’s last words were: “I’m in Raqqa and I received death threats, and when Isis [arrests] me and kills me it’s ok because they will cut my head and I have dignity its better than I live in humiliation with Isis .”
In one of her final posts on Facebook, she mocks Isis, also known as Islamic State, for banning Wi-Fi hotspots in the city of Raqqa. The exact date of Ms Hassan’s execution is unknown.
‘Jihadi junior’ begs to come back home:
The grandfather of the young British boy featured in an Isis propaganda video threatening the UK has said the child pleaded for him to take him home. Henry Dare, also known as Sunday, identified him as his daughter Grace’s son, Isa Dare, who she took to Syria when she went to join the so-called Islamic State in 2012. “That is my grandson, I’d know him anywhere. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the pictures. I felt sick,” he told The Sun. “They are pure evil for doing this to that child — pure evil. He doesn’t like it there. “I spoke to him on the phone and he just said, ‘Grandad, come and get me.”
( Source : agencies )
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