Nadia Murad
Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Arabic: نادية مراد, born 1993) is a Yazidi rights activist who was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State in August 2014.
Biography
In 2015 21 year old Nadia Murad was a student living in the village of Kocho in Sinjar, northern Iraq when Islamic State fighters rounded up the Yazidi community in the village killing 312 men (including six of Nadia’s brothers and stepbrothers) and taking the younger women into slavery. That year Nadia Murad was one of more than 5,000 Yazidi women taken prisoner by Islamic State in Iraq. She was held as a slave in the city of Mosul, beaten and raped when trying to escape. After three months she did manage to run away and was taken in by a neighbouring family who were able to smuggle her out of the Islamic State controlled area, allowing her to make her way to a refugee camp in Duhok, northern Iraq, and then to Stuttgart. [1] [2] [3]
On 5 January 2016, the Iraqi government nominated her for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.[4] A Norwegian lawmaker seconded the nomination.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-forced-us-to-pray-then-raped-us-yazidi-survivor-nadia-murad-describes-life-as-a-sex-slave-in-a6792676.html
- ↑ http://time.com/4152127/isis-yezidi-woman-slavery-united-nations/
- ↑ https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/every-part-of-me-changed-in-their-hands-former-isis-sex-slave-nadia-murad-speaks-out
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