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Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad wins human rights award
Source: BBC
Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad wins human rights award
11 October 2016 Middle East
A Yazidi woman who was tortured and raped by Islamic State (IS) group militants has won a human rights award.
Iraqi activist Nadia Murad was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe.
Miss Murad became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people and stop human trafficking after escaping IS in November 2014.
The 23-year-old had been captured and enslaved three months earlier along with about 5,000 women and girls.
During her months in captivity, she was bought and sold several times, and subjected to sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the jihadists.
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11 October 2016 Middle East
A Yazidi woman who was tortured and raped by Islamic State (IS) group militants has won a human rights award.
Iraqi activist Nadia Murad was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe.
Miss Murad became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people and stop human trafficking after escaping IS in November 2014.
The 23-year-old had been captured and enslaved three months earlier along with about 5,000 women and girls.
During her months in captivity, she was bought and sold several times, and subjected to sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the jihadists.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37617599
[font size=1]Nadia Murad was one of thousands of Yazidi women and girls captured and enslaved by Islamic State in August 2014[/font]
