The Human Rights Watch organization announced today that Islamic State extremists tortured and abused Kurdish children they captured in May in the northern Syrian city of Kobane.
This organization came to these findings based on interviews with several boys who were among more than 150 Kurdish boys abducted in Kobane at the end of May while they were returning home from school in Aleppo, the AP agency reported.
About 50 children managed to escape, while the others in the groups were released, and the last group of children was released on October 29.
The four boys who were captured said that the jihadists beat them with a hose and electric cables.
93 Kurds freed
Members of IS released yesterday 93 Kurds whom they captured in February, during their crossing from Syria to neighboring Iraq, the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced today. based in London.
The extremists captured about 100 people whom they accused of belonging to the Kurdish Democratic Unity Party (PYD), which opposes them, the Observatory said.
For now, the reason for their release is unknown
Yesterday, IS released all but six Kurds, who were accused of theft, said the Observatory, which receives information from a network of sources on the ground.
The extremists threatened them with cutting off their right hand according to Sharia law.
More than 50 Kurds who were freed yesterday arrived in Turkey.
The Kurds were captured while crossing from the area around the Syrian city of Kobane on the Syrian-Turkish border into Iraqi Kurdistan.
Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds headed to Iraq at the beginning of this year to escape the offensive of extremists in Syria, who intensified attacks on Kobane and neighboring areas in recent weeks.
According to the Observatory, IS extremists are still holding around 70 Kurds.
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