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SYRIA: ISLAMIC STATE BEHEADS FOUR MEN FOR BLASPHEMY

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16 December 2014 :

Islamic State's self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated 4 men after accusing them of blasphemy, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said.
The men were beheaded in the countryside east of the city of Homs by the militant group's "Islamic Police", the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
 
(Source: Reuters, December 14, 2014)

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