Iraqi women’s rights activist executed by ISIS

                    

An Iraqi lawyer and women’s rights activist has been killed by ISIS, the head of the United Nations human rights office said on Thursday.

The killing follows the execution of a number of Iraqi women in areas under the group's control documented by United Nations monitors.

Two candidates contesting Iraq’s general election in Nineveh Province, were killed in July. A third female candidate was abducted by gunmen in eastern Mosul and has not been heard from since.

The latest victim Salih Ali al-Nuaimy, was seized from her home by ISIS last week and tortured for several days before a masked firing squad executed her in public on Monday, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations human rights commissioner, said in a statement.

Ms. Nuaimy had posted comments on her Facebook page condemning the “barbaric” bombing and destroying of mosques and shrines in Mosul, a northern Iraqi city, by the ISIS or ISIL.