Girl's stoning death filmed on cameraphone

Mobile phone videos have appeared on the internet showing an Iraqi mob stoning and kicking to death a 17-year-old girl after she offended her minority community by eloping with a Muslim man. The Herald Sun reports.

"Doaa Khalil Aswad was a member of northern Iraq's Yazidi religious sect but, according to local officials, was murdered on April 7 by her brothers and uncles after she allegedly converted to Islam.

In the video - on the Kurdish websiteJebar.info and rapidly spreading on the internet - Aswad is shown lying in the road as men kick her and throw a large lump of rock or concrete at her head."

emily | 5:09 PM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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