Women secretly filmed in IS strongholds
According to CNN, they wore long hoods from head to toe, wore veils, shopped, took taxis, walked the streets, filming an empty city with little traffic and only a few armed men walking.
`Everyone left,` they said, because the number of air strikes targeting IS in Raqqa, a city in northern Syria, is increasing.
After 5 years of civil war in Syria, Raqqa has changed completely.
The video above was filmed late last winter, according to Expressen TV.
The Armenian Catholic Church has now been turned into the headquarters of the Muslim police by IS.
`I saw him sitting on the ground,` said Oum Mohammad, one of the two cameramen.
She said she tried to film the beheading scene but failed.
`They often use bullets to shoot at the victim, desecrate the body, cut off the head and then stick it on a stake, leaving it in the most visible place,` Oum said.
The two said IS had imposed the toughest Islamic law to rule the city that was once the freest land in Syria.
Gay people are now subject to death, women are deprived of many rights, and have to hide their bodies and faces.
`As women, everyone likes to show off their faces. We have lost that right, the right to express our femininity,` Oum said.
The video also shows where wealthy families in Raqqa lived before being thrown out of their doors by IS.
`They come from Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, the Arab kingdoms, Europe, some parts of France,` Oum said, `but the majority come from Saudi Arabia.`
These two women despite the danger to their lives recorded the video in the hope that one day, they will be free.
`I long to take off my veil and the black cloak that covers my body. Freedom is the most precious thing.`
