Tracking Islamic State
Ghazala's Story: Whether We Live Or Die, The Important Thing Is To Escape
"We stayed on our feet while they looked for the ones who were pretty, those with a nice body, or pretty eyes, or pretty hair, or a pretty face. They would take them, rape them, and pass them on to others."
This is one of the terrifying memories that 28-year-old Ghazala, a Yazidi woman from Sinjar in Iraq's Kurdistan region, has of her ordeal in Islamic State captivity.
Ghazala and her younger sister Narin (their names have been changed for security reasons) were held prisoner in the extremist group's de facto capital, the Syrian city of Raqqa, for nine months.
Sold as slaves, the sisters were forced to work in servitude there for an IS gunman.
A file photo of a Yazidi woman who escaped Islamic State captivity earlier this year.
