slavery

“IS saw the Yazidis as objects, not people”

From October 14 to 17, victims’ testimonies were shared in the trial of a Dutch national accused of holding two Yazidi women as house slaves in Syria. The accused had travelled in 2015 with her four-year-old son and married an Islamic State (IS) fighter. She is charged with slavery as crime against humanity. The prosecutor […]
By Margherita Capacci (our correspondent in The Hague)
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