IS detains four students in Iraq

BAGHDAD: The Islamic State group has detained four journalism students in Mosul on charges of leaking information from the Jihadist bastion to Iraqi and media organisations, a media watchdog said on Saturday.
The four were taken from their homes in different parts of the northern city late on Friday, the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO), an Iraqi organisation, said in a statement.
Mosul activists and a former security official confirmed to AFP that four Mosul University students had been detained and taken to an unknown location.
A journalist who was arrested for similar reasons in June, Jala al-Abadi, was executed in mid-July.
According to JFO, IS holds at least eight journalists from the province of Nineveh, of which Mosul is the capital.
Another journalist inside Mosul, who also asked not to be named for fear of retribution, said some of the journalists he knew, who were later released by Islamic State, told him they had been lashed 70 times before being questioned and were given a choice between being killed, imprisoned, or used for slave labour.