Jinan, 18, an Iraqi Yazidi, survivor of the Islamic State militant group and cowriter of the book "Esclave de daesh" ("Daesh's Slave," using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State), pictured in Paris, on Monday.
Kidnapped, beaten, sold, and raped: The Islamic State group is running an international market in Iraq where Christian and Yazidi women are sold as sexual slaves, a teenager who escaped told AFP on Tuesday.
Jinan, 18, a Yazidi, was captured in early 2014 and held by militants from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh, for three months before she managed to flee, she said on a visit to Paris ahead of the publication Friday of a book about her ordeal.
Seized as ISIS fighters swept through northern regions inhabited by the Yazidi religious minority, Jinan was moved around between several locations before being bought by two men, a former police officer and an imam.
She described to AFP how she and other Yazidi prisoners were locked up in a house.
"They tortured us, tried to forcefully convert us," she said. "If we refused, we were beaten, chained outdoors in the sun, forced to drink water with dead mice in it. Sometimes they threatened to torture us with electricity.
"These men are not human. They only think of death, killing. They take drugs constantly. They seek vengeance against everyone. They say that one day Islamic State will rule over the whole world."
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