An international human rights group has claimed that children captured by the Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian town of Kobane were tortured and humiliated by the militants.
Human Rights Watch, an international advocacy organization, made the allegations on Tuesday based on interviews with four boys who they said were held by the IS for months, reported the CNN.
Children in the age group of 14 and 16 years were part of a group taking the 150-km trek back from Aleppo after finishing their middle school exams when they were halted and detained by the group on May 29. While the terror group released about 100 girls within hours, they detained the boys at a school in Manbij, 50 kilometers south-west of Kobane.
The captured kids were made to sleep with blankets on floor, bathe once in two weeks, eat twice a day and get occasional visits and calls from their parents.
The boys who were interviewed said that they were forced to watch videos showing beheadings and attacks, pray five times a day and memorize parts of the Quran.
The human rights watch group claimed that the boys were beaten with hoses and electrical cables for not doing well on their religious lessons and for trying to escape.
Syria's Kobane has been the site of a fierce clash between the IS and Kurdish fighters for weeks.
