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The Teenager Who Saw Her IS Captor in Germany

18/08/2018 GMT

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The Yazidi teenager who claims her IS captor tracked her down

The Yazidi teenager who claims her IS captor tracked her down.

Ashwaq Ali is a Yazidi woman who was sold into sexual slavery by IS in Iraq. She escape for a new life in Germany, where, she claims, her abuser tracked her down and confronted her outside a supermarket.

Also in the programme: Kerala’s deadly floods; and the beauty of bhangra. 

(Image: Yazidi woman Ashwaq, allegedly used by the Islamic State group (IS) as a sex slave, in Lalish, northern Iraq, on 15th August 2018. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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