ISIS News: Terror Group Executes Journalist, Facebook Used to Track Other Activists
The atrocities continue to flow from the heart of the Islamic State as it has been confirmed that a female Syrian journalist was executed sometime in September or October.
According to the New York Daily News, Syria Direct reported that Ruqia Hassan was executed by the terror group in September. The journalist's family were only informed this week that Hassan was executed for "espionage."
Hassan is famous in her area for being a citizen journalist. She was positioned in Raqqa before the execution. Raqqa is known as the heart of ISIS since it is the extremist organization's stronghold in Syria, and while the city tries to hang on, it seems the town will be reduced to ashes in the near future if the war never stops.
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Breitbart News says Hassan is the first woman executed in the ISIS stronghold for "reporting within the terrorist organization's territory." Other citizen journalists and activists also said the ISIS made use of her Facebook account to find out the plans and locations of other activists who it thinks are committing the same crime that Hassan was killed for.
The 30-year-old was able to send off her last words according to the founder of an underground journalism campaign in the area. "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 it's better than I live in humiliation with ISIS," she reportedly said.
Hassan's death is only one of the numerous acts that the Islamic State has performed over the past years to plant fear and pain among people who are planning to go against its own Islamic beliefs.
In November, the French capital of Paris was attacked in a series of explosions, gun fire, and suicide bombings. The attacks resulted in deaths of hundreds of people and attracted the anger of people around the globe.
With the news of Hassan's execution, the rage has only been fueled, especially in the journalism field, where lives are at stake and the price for reporting against terrorism and extremism is life itself.
