According to reports coming from the southern province of Abyan, al-Qaeda militants would have punished a group of 5 youth for consuming narcotics by lashing them.

The group "Ansar al Shariah" which has declared it wanted to restore their own interpretation of the Sharia Law (legal system based on the teaching of the Holy Quran) has been handing out public corporal punishment for the past few months. A young man recently passed away after his hand was cut out as he had been accused of stealing electric cables by the Islamists.

According to al-Arabiya channel, the punishment was carried out in a field just outside Jaar, a town under the terror group's control in front of dozens of witnesses. It seems now that the militants are mimicking the Taliban's tactics, instilling fear of reprisals into the civilian population as they pervert Islam to serve their own selfish ambitions.
After receiving 80 lashes each the young men were released.

Residents which have been living in fear ever since the al-Qaeda fighters occupied their town are now living an absolute nightmare, leaving under the tyrannical rule of a group of fanatic whose understanding of Islam is biased.
American security experts are warning against a repeat of the Afghani Taliban ruling system in Yemen if the group is not forces out of Abyan and Yemen for that matter.