New Footage Shows ISIS Courtroom And Cages Used To House Prisoners

New footage has emerged giving a chilling insight into what it's like to live in an area controlled by ISIS.

The video shows the inside of an Islamic State courthouse in the Iraqi city of Fallujah where brutal sentences were handed out to prisoners.

The courthouse, discovered by Iraqi soldiers, was used by ISIS fighters to hold and sentence their enemies up until June of this year, the extremist fighters were driven out of the city in the same month.

Video credit: Ruptly

Before the area's liberation, defendants were locked up in small iron cages before standing trial before extremist 'judges'.

It's clear how small the cages for prisoners are, with the men and women inside being forced to either stand, kneel or curl up, depending on how big they were relative to the cage.

Standing at the site, Iraqi Army Brig, Jalil Abdulredha, told NBC: "They used to imprison locals in iron cages like animals.

"They made different shapes of cages for different positions, such as kneeling and standing. This shows the brutality of this terrorist organization."

It is not clear if the cages were situated below the courtroom, or in an adjacent building.

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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