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A Yazidi tells an Australian court she was enslaved and raped in an IS home in Syria
A Yazidi woman alleged she was enslaved, raped, and beaten by a family in Syria linked to the Islamic State group. Zeinab Ahmad and her mother Kawsar Ahmad face slavery charges in an Australian court after returning from a Syrian refugee camp. The woman claimed Zeinab's father, Mohammed Ahmad, bought her for $10,000 in 2017 and subjected her to sexual and physical abuse.
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