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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 03:09 PM Sep 2014

ISIS tortures and kills Iraqi womens rights activist

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A prominent female Iraqi human rights lawyer and campaigner has been publicly executed days after posting anti-ISIS messages on her Facebook page, the U.N. said Thursday. Samira Salih al-Nuaimi was killed by a masked firing squad in a public square in the city of Mosul, an act described as "horrifying" by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. She was tortured before her death on Monday, the U.N. said.

Al-Nuaimi, a well-known figure in Mosul, was remembered for her courageous work promoting the rights of women and helping the poor. "She used to stand before courts in order to defend those who were detained by U.S. forces, and she did that for free," a Mosul resident told NBC News. Al-Nuaimy was detained Sept. 17 after she posted messages on Facebook describing ISIS' bombing and destruction of mosques and shrines in Mosul as "barbaric." She was accused by the self-styled Islamic court of apostasy and sentenced to death by ISIS fighters. Her body will be handed to family who have been warned against conducting a funeral ceremony, a local journalist told NBC.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/leading-iraqi-human-rights-activist-killed-after-anti-isis-posts-n211441

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ISIS tortures and kills Iraqi womens rights activist (Original Post) sufrommich Sep 2014 OP
Who set the example? Downwinder Sep 2014 #1
On women's rights? BeyondGeography Sep 2014 #3
On torture. Downwinder Sep 2014 #4
Oh, I know...BushCo has left you morally paralyzed BeyondGeography Sep 2014 #5
People who have been there said Downwinder Sep 2014 #6
Moral high ground is an imaginary construct Shivering Jemmy Sep 2014 #12
What kind of point are you trying to make here? YoungDemCA Sep 2014 #7
Damned monsters n/t LiberalEsto Sep 2014 #2
Sick fucks ismnotwasm Sep 2014 #8
And once again, ISIS proves her right. "Barbaric" it is. CaptainTruth Sep 2014 #9
RIP, Samira Salih al-Nuaimi theHandpuppet Sep 2014 #10
Kicking. nt littlemissmartypants Sep 2014 #11

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
6. People who have been there said
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 03:32 PM
Sep 2014

don't throw away the Geneva Convention. Have we gotten it back? Now we have the moral high ground?

CaptainTruth

(6,546 posts)
9. And once again, ISIS proves her right. "Barbaric" it is.
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 05:55 PM
Sep 2014

It does seem like ISIS is intent on proving their critics right.

Not very smart, they are.

I say kill every last one of them.

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
10. RIP, Samira Salih al-Nuaimi
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:13 PM
Sep 2014

You, unlike your cowardly killers, will be remembered for both your compassion and courage.

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