ISIS Tortures, Publicly Kills Woman Lawyer Activist in Mosul

The United Nations Mission in Iraq said that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, killed a woman activist lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul for abandoning her religion.

 Samira Salih al-Nuaimi was arrested by the Islamic State police from her home last week in a northeastern district of Mosul , sources in the know told The Associated Press, Thursday.

A religious court of the ISIS accused her of apostasy and ordered a public execution.

Her family was called five days later to identify her corpse in a morgue. The body bore signs of torture.

The ISIS killed her because of her Facebook postings where she criticized the religious fanatic group for destroying religious sites in Mosul, the UN Mission said.

"By torturing and executing a female human rights' lawyer and activist, defending in particular the civil and human rights of her fellow citizens in Mosul, ISIL continues to attest to its infamous nature, combining hatred, nihilism and savagery, as well as its total disregard of human decency," Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. envoy to Iraq, said in a statement. It was not revealed how she was killed.

The Gulf Center for Human Rights based in Bahrain, said Wednesday that al-Nuaimi had worked on detainee rights and poverty. The rights organization said her death "is solely motivated by her peaceful and legitimate human rights work, in particular defending the civil and human rights of her fellow citizens in Mosul," reports the AP.

The ISIS does not treat any rebellion against its diktat with leniency. It had earlier killed a woman candidate in the town of Sderat for daring to stand for council elections. Her husband was abducted. Another female politician of Mosul is still missing, reports the Daily Mail.