ISIS butchers publicly execute brave dissidents for anti-jihadi graffiti and spying as Kurds get closer to liberating Mosul from fanatics

ISIS butchers have executed three brave dissidents in Mosul for spray-painting anti-regime slogans.

Another five men were publicly executed for helping terrified people escape from the terrorists' iron grip on the city.

And three others were beheaded for spying.

The 11 men were killed in an orgy of punishments within hours of each other.

Their deaths come as Kurdish forces began a fresh offensive to retake the major Iraqi city at the weekend.

A firing squad cut down the three painters before ISIS thugs covered over the slogans they had sacrificed their lives to write.

Crowds were also forced to gather in the city to watch five men being killed for helping people flee to the “land of the disbelievers”.

They were made to kneel in a square before being shot in the back of the head and strung up on crosses with a list of their “crimes” pinned to their corpses.

And a trio of boiler-suited prisoners were also killed with hunting knives by ISIS henchmen dressed in black.

ISIS is desperate to impose its will on its captured lands as allied forces range against Mosul and also its so-called capital Raqqa in Syria.

Dissident groups there have reported that the under-pressure regime is ramping up executions and tortures as its lands are squeezed.

Opposition group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently has uncovered sickening details of the excruciating torments meted out to prisoners in the terror group’s jails in Syria and Iraq.

One method is called the 'shabeh' or ghost.

This involves an inmate being hung by his hands above the floor often for days at a time.

The group said: “The prisoner often loses his ability to move his hands, dislocates his joints, and could cause damage to his brachial plexus [nerves that control arm and hand movement], resulting usually in permanent disability.”

Another torture method is electric shock, which ISIS uses to interrogate prisoners with complete disregard to the limits of the human body.

RSS added: “Electric shock often leads to death, caused by damage to heart muscle or electric burns.”

But the group also uses psychological techniques as well.

An ISIS member would occasionally enter carrying a prisoner’s amputated head, promising the others a similar fate

Former ISIS prisoner

One man who escaped an ISIS hell-hole with his life revealed: “The ISIS prison wardens would speak continuously of the coming retribution.

"ISIS men would enter, place knives on our necks, and threaten to kill us.

"An ISIS member would occasionally enter carrying a prisoner’s amputated head, promising the others a similar fate."

Their torture machine is being ramped up as brave Kurdish forces began mounting a 'final phase' offensive to retake Mosul.

On Sunday the Kurd's elite peshmerga fighters said they liberated twelve villages on the outskirts of the city -- the largest under ISIS control with a pre-war population of 2million people.

A wave of bombs dropped by American and anti-ISIS coalition planes was followed by the advance of Kurdish troops.

The fighters from the autonomous Kurdistan region faced mortar attacks from ISIS positions as well as two car bombs driven by suicide fighters.

It is not clear how many troops died in the assault, although Kurdish sources say a TV cameraman was killed and a journalist was injured.

Brett McGurk, the US envoy to the coalition fighting ISIS, said an all-out effort to retake Mosul is "approaching the final phase".

Preparations are being made to rebuild the city's key infrastructure and re-home displaced civilians after it is liberated.

Mosul is just 250 miles from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

It was from the city's Grand Mosque in 2014 that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" over captured lands in the region.

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