<p>The Islamic State group has hanged two youths after accusing them of eating during daylight hours in the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said.<br /><br />"Residents of the village of Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor province reported that IS hanged from a crossbar two boys aged under 18 near the HQ of the Hissba", the jihadist police, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP yesterday.<br /><br />"The children have been suspended by ropes from a pole since noon, and they were still there in the late evening," he said."Apparently, they were caught eating."<br /><br />A placard was attached to the bodies reading "They broke the fast with no religious justification".<br /><br />Throughout the month of Ramadan, which began on Thursday, believers abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn until sunset.<br /><br />IS, which controls swathes of territory across Syria and Iraq where it has created a self-proclaimed "caliphate", advocates an extreme view of the application of Islamic law, or sharia.</p>.<p><br />The jihadists do not hesitate to impose brutal punishments including beheadings, stonings, floggings and crucifixions. </p>
<p>The Islamic State group has hanged two youths after accusing them of eating during daylight hours in the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said.<br /><br />"Residents of the village of Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor province reported that IS hanged from a crossbar two boys aged under 18 near the HQ of the Hissba", the jihadist police, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP yesterday.<br /><br />"The children have been suspended by ropes from a pole since noon, and they were still there in the late evening," he said."Apparently, they were caught eating."<br /><br />A placard was attached to the bodies reading "They broke the fast with no religious justification".<br /><br />Throughout the month of Ramadan, which began on Thursday, believers abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn until sunset.<br /><br />IS, which controls swathes of territory across Syria and Iraq where it has created a self-proclaimed "caliphate", advocates an extreme view of the application of Islamic law, or sharia.</p>.<p><br />The jihadists do not hesitate to impose brutal punishments including beheadings, stonings, floggings and crucifixions. </p>