Documents compiled by a U.S.-based Syrian rights group reveal how
Islamic State militants used one of their most powerful bureaucratic bodies to regulate daily life and impose and execute penalties.
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The Washington-based
Syria Justice and Accountability Center said Thursday that the evidence — documents produced by IS itself — could help identify individuals responsible for atrocities during the militants' four-year reign of terror and lead to criminal prosecutions.
The 24-page report, called “Judge, Jury and Executioner,” is based on dozens of documents obtained by SJAC from inside Syria and collected by a local activist from abandoned IS offices in Raqqa province, where the militants also had their self-declared capital in a city that carries the same name.