With no reporters around to tell what is going on, you can imagine how terrified anyone with a cell phone is when reporting the events.
Inside an Isil town: 'Raqqa is being slaughtered silently'
With almost no journalists - local or foreign - allowed to operate inside the Isil-controlled Syrian town of Raqqa, informants give a grim account of life under the jihadists' rule
A fighter from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stands near burning confiscated cigarettes in the city of Raqqa Photo: REUTERS
By Ruth Sherlock, and Carol Malouf in Beirut
5:00PM BST 23 Aug 2014
The first time the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant crucified one of their prisoners, it was Abu Ibrahim, who notified the world.
Trying to steady his trembling hands, his camera phone concealed in his sleeve, the 23-year-old filmed as the executioners tacked the victim to a post in the town's central square.
Standing amid a cheering crowd in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the "capital" of the jihadist's embryonic Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim knew that if he was found out, the next crucifixion would be his own.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11052984/Inside-an-Is
Inside an Isil town: 'Raqqa is being slaughtered silently'
With almost no journalists - local or foreign - allowed to operate inside the Isil-controlled Syrian town of Raqqa, informants give a grim account of life under the jihadists' rule

A fighter from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stands near burning confiscated cigarettes in the city of Raqqa Photo: REUTERS
By Ruth Sherlock, and Carol Malouf in Beirut
5:00PM BST 23 Aug 2014
The first time the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant crucified one of their prisoners, it was Abu Ibrahim, who notified the world.
Trying to steady his trembling hands, his camera phone concealed in his sleeve, the 23-year-old filmed as the executioners tacked the victim to a post in the town's central square.
Standing amid a cheering crowd in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the "capital" of the jihadist's embryonic Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim knew that if he was found out, the next crucifixion would be his own.
Continue reading at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11052984/Inside-an-Is