A/HRC/27/60 found, shot in the chest, four days later. During the attack on Kasab (Latakia), as they moved into the town, armed groups, including Jabhat al-Nusra, killed at least two civilians. On 22 March, while inside Kasab, they shot and killed a 23-year-old man. In committing those acts, the anti-Government armed groups perpetrated the war crime of murder. (b) Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham 30. Executions in public spaces have become a common spectacle on Fridays in Ar Raqqah and ISIS-controlled areas of Aleppo governorate. ISIS informs residents beforehand and encourages them to attend. In some cases, ISIS forces passers-by to attend. Children have been present at the executions, which take the form of beheading or shooting in the head at close range. Before executions, ISIS fighters announce the victims’ crimes. Bodies are placed on public display, often on crucifixes, for up to three days, serving as a warning to local residents. 31. Victims are usually accused of being affiliated with other armed groups, or of violating the ISIS criminal code. There have also been examples of the execution of men accused of being affiliated with the Syrian National Coalition, or of spying for the Government. The majority of those executed are adult men. ISIS has also executed several boys, aged between 15 and 17 years, who were reportedly members of other armed groups. In July, two women were stoned to death by an ISIS-sanctioned mob in different locations in Ar Raqqah governorate. 32. In Ar Raqqah city, executions regularly take place in El-Naim square and at Al-Sa’a roundabout. Dozens have been documented. In late April, ISIS executed seven people, five under the age of 18, in El-Naim square, for being members of armed groups. Three bodies were displayed on crucifixes for three days. On the same day, two men were executed in Tabqa and Slouk (Ar Raqqah). On 22 March in Tabqa, ISIS shot a man in the head and placed his body on a crucifix for two days. 33. As ISIS has expanded its control of areas in eastern Aleppo governorate, it has publicly executed people in Minbij, Al Bab and Jarabulus. In Minbij, ISIS uses a parking lot as its execution site. Most executions are beheadings. In February, a 15-year-old boy was beheaded, ostensibly for committing rape. Children were present. Several of those interviewed believed that he had been executed for being a member of another armed group. The body was left on the ground for two days. In April, ISIS fighters beheaded two men. Their bodies were displayed on crucifixes for two days. 34. In April, ISIS beheaded two men in Al-Bza’a, outside Al Bab. Several hundred people were gathered to watch, including children. The first execution was improperly carried out, as the knife was insufficiently sharp. In February, in Jarabulus, ISIS beheaded three captured fighters from another armed group, one of whom was 17 years old. Their heads were displayed on sticks for several days after the execution. 35. Detainees were killed in ISIS custody. In February, a man accused of kidnapping a child was shot and killed at a prison in Jarabulus. In March, ISIS detained a man in Jarabulus on suspicion of being affiliated to another armed group. Three days later his family was called to claim the body. 36. ISIS justifies its executions by religious law. Persons interviewed stated that detainees in ISIS prisons have no access to lawyers and are afforded none of the due process rights inherent in a fair trial. While investigations into the operation of ISIS sharia courts are ongoing, there are reasonable grounds to believe that ISIS has committed the war crime of execution without due process. 37. By its public display of bodies and failure to honourably inter them in accordance with the rites of the religion of the deceased, ISIS has violated customary international 7