article_snippet: Last month, Islamic State released a document on social media, explaining the rules of Islamic State penal code, which is being brutally enforced across ISIS-held territory in Syria and Iraq.
article_snippet: Entitled 'Clarification [regarding] the Hudud', a document on social media contains a list of the punishments handed out for crimes committed in Islamic State, in accordance with the extremist group's radical interpretation of Shariah law.
article_snippet: All punishments are carried out after a 'trial' at an Islamic State court.
article_snippet: All forms of blasphemy against Islam are punished by execution, even if the accuser chooses to repent of All forms of blasphemy against Islam sins.
article_snippet: Likewise, committing murder, spying, apostasy or sodomy is punished by immediate death.
article_snippet: Islamic State's penal code also states that anyone found guilty of banditry and caught stealing
article_snippet: Flogging is another common punishment carried out under Islamic State.
highlights_snippet: Suspect was apparently convicted after a 'trial' at an Islamic State court .
  