The Islamic State's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, led prayers last Friday at Mosul's Great Nur al-Din Mosque. One of the first clerics executed in Mosul, according to the UN, was that mosque's imam, Muhammad al-Mansuri.
He was executed on June 12, the UN said, for failing to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State, which released a 21-minute video on Saturday of Baghdadi preaching from the same minbar, or pulpit, that Mansuri once occupied.
Twelve other Sunni clerics were executed on June 14, the UN says.
Baghdadi has asserted that all Muslims owe allegiance to the Islamic caliphate - which the Islamic State declared on June 29 and now exists in the areas it controls in Syria and Iraq - and to Baghdadi, who now calls himself Caliph Ibrahim.
A resident of Mosul who once worked at the mosque said on Saturday that the Islamic State is now dictating the content of Friday sermons in the city.
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