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EU Parliament awards Sakharov prize to Yazidi women
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Thu Oct 27, 2016 | 6:22am EDT
EU Parliament awards Sakharov prize to Yazidi women
The European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought and expression to Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two women from Iraq's Yazidi community who suffered attack and persecution by Islamic State.
Murad and Bashar were among thousands of women and girls abducted and held as sexual slaves by Islamic State fighters after they rounded up Yazidis in their village of Kocho, near Sinjar in northwest Iraq, in the summer of 2014.
Murad has also called for the recognition of the massacre of Yazidis as genocide.
The Yazidi are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions. Islamic State considers the minority as devil-worshippers.
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EU Parliament awards Sakharov prize to Yazidi women
The European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought and expression to Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two women from Iraq's Yazidi community who suffered attack and persecution by Islamic State.
Murad and Bashar were among thousands of women and girls abducted and held as sexual slaves by Islamic State fighters after they rounded up Yazidis in their village of Kocho, near Sinjar in northwest Iraq, in the summer of 2014.
Murad has also called for the recognition of the massacre of Yazidis as genocide.
The Yazidi are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions. Islamic State considers the minority as devil-worshippers.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-prize-idUSKCN12R14X