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Islamic State bans skinny jeans and smoking
Jihadists threaten to jail any young man in Raqqa wearing skinny jeans, smoking or keeping music on their mobiles
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) militants in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa have threatened to jail any young man wearing skinny jeans, smoking or keep music on his mobile phone.
Residents found in breach of the new restrictions will face at least ten days inside the province's jihadist-run jails, according to anti-Isil activists in the area.
Only those who pass a prison-based 'Islamic course' will be allowed to leave at the end of their initial sentence.
Home to hundreds of thousands of Syrians, Raqqa is known as the "capital" of the jihadist's embryonic Islamic State. Male and female morality brigades patrol the provincial capital on a regular basis, and residents believed to be gay, or to have had sex outside of marriage, face brutal executions justified by obscure Islamic teachings.
The new penalties for practices deemed un-Islamic reveal the extremists tightening their grip over the social mores of millions of Syrians living under its rule.
The introduction of the new laws were revealed by the anti-Isil campaign group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) who risk their lives leaking information from inside the city. Isil regularly runs house-to-house searches, trying to find the operators of the group's website.
The activists reported on Saturday that Isil's enforcement of its morality sanctions had been "changeable", but said they were being enforced with increasing stringency.
"The expression of view has become a crime," a local resident, named only as Jassem, told RBSS.
"You cannot oppose or discuss a decision issued by [Isil], otherwise you will be arrested on charges of violation of God's law."
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Isil's focus on enforcing morality is reminiscent of similar attempts made by religious Shia militias in Iraq. In 2012, human rights groups said up to 90 people had been abducted and murdered because they were accused of being gay or "emo", a western term used for young people who wear black.
With almost no journalists able to operate in Raqqa, RBSS is one of the only conduits through which details of Isil's iron-fist rule are smuggled out to the world.
On Saturday, the group said that 42 children had died inside a clinic for the treatment of blood disorders since January 2014, due to a shortage of drugs.
"This is our city, and now it's an open prison. Our children are suffering and dying," said a spokesman for RBSS.