30 décembre 2016
Lamiya Aji Bashar, Yazidi woman prisoner by Islamic State (ISIS)
© Alfred YAGHOBZADEH / Divergence
Lamiya Aji Bashar, 18-year-old Yazidi woman who was prisoner as a sex slave by Islamic State (ISIS) militants beaten and raped, she and two other Yazidi girls escaping with her neared Kurdish front lines in northern Iraq, one of them stepped on a land mine.The explosion killed the other two, whom Bashar only knew as 20-year-old Katherine and 8-year-old Almas. Bashar lost her right eye in the blast, her face was left covered in scars and her damaged left eye needs treatment to save what's left of her sight. receiving the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights from the hands of European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Two Yazidi women who escaped sexual enslavement by the Islamic State group and went on to become advocates for others have won the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights. The award, named after Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, was created in 1988 to honor individuals or groups who defend human rights and fundamental freedoms. Strasbourg, France 13/12/2016
Lieu : Strasbourg, FRANCE
Mots clés : Lamiya Aji Bashar, Yazidi, woman, prisoner, Islamic State, ISIS, Kocho, Sinjar, Iraq, slave, beaten, burned, genocide, sexually assault, rap, raped, European Union, EU, Sakharov Prize, human rights, European Parliament, Strasbourg, France, sexual enslavement, Sexual Abuse, rape, Abus sexuels, viol, Andrei Sakharov, freedom, photography, femme, prisonnier, Etat islamique, Irak, war, guerre, esclave, battu, brule, viole, Yezidis, Union europeenne, UE, Prix Sakharov, droits de homme, Parlement europeen, liberte, photographie, photojournalism, Alfred Yaghobzadeh