A French member of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) was sentenced to life in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity. At issue are acts organized by jihadists, which concern homicides, rape and slavery of the Yazidis. This is an indigenous Kurdish ethnoreligious minority from Kurdistan, which is present in greater numbers in Iraq.
The conviction of Sabri Essid, in the Paris criminal court, was based on testimonies from two women of whom the now convicted man was “owner”. Furthermore, there are several women who were given a “market value” and who claim to have been purchased for between 40 and 100 dollars..
Messages collected in a group on the social network Telegram entitled “caliphate soldiers market” lead us to believe that several children were sold, in exchange for money or goods, into sexual slavery. The youngest girls were from nine years old and cost up to 14 thousand dollars.
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