This is so frightening.
It’s been reported that ISIS secretly executed journalist Ruqia Hassan and hacked into her Facebook account to trick her friends and family, keeping her death a secret for three months.
Thirty-year-old Ruqia, who went by the pen name Nissan Ibrahim, was killed in September after being accused of spying for the Free Syrian Army, according to The Independent.
The Islamic State have claimed the Syrian city of Raqqa as its capital, and activists and groups like the Free Syrian Army who oppose this, are targets of ISIS.
In the three months between her death and it being reported, the terrorist group hacked her Facebook account, posing as her to gather information from her friends and family about other journalists and activists.
However, her death has now been confirmed by activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, with one of the group’s members tweeting her last words.
1-the last words from Nissan Ibrahim Syrian activist who got executed by #ISIS was ” im in Raqqa and I received pic.twitter.com/LNUHad0aYm
— Abu Mohammed (@Raqqa_sl1) January 2, 2016
#Raqqa 2-“Death threats and when #ISIS will Arrest me and kill me its ok Because they will cut my head and i have Dignity its better than”
— Abu Mohammed (@Raqqa_sl1) January 2, 2016
#Raqqa 3-I live in Humiliation with #ISIS#RIP Nissan
— Abu Mohammed (@Raqqa_sl1) January 2, 2016
Hassan, who had studied philosophy, had been an active Facebook user before her death.
When ISIS tried to ban wifi hotspots in Raqqa, Hassan posted a status which read:
Go ahead and cut off the Internet, our messenger pigeons won’t complain.”
However, after her public Facebook posts stopped in July, members of the militant group reportedly used her account to send messages to her friends and family.