(IBTIMES) — The Islamic State group reportedly executed two people in the Syrian province of Deir el-Zour Tuesday. Their crime? Being gay. This is the first report that Islamic State militants killed someone for being homosexual since the group declared its caliphate during the summer.
Two Syrian men, 18 and 20, were separately stoned for being gay, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The first man was stoned to death in the Deir el-Zour town of Mayadeen, on the border with Iraq, after the group formerly known as ISIS found cell phone videos purporting to show the man “practicing indecent acts with males,” the human rights group said. The second, younger man was executed in the Deir el-Zour capital without any proof.