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DUBAI: Hundreds of women convicted of being members of Daesh and serving long jail terms in a high-security prison in Iraq have reportedly been on hunger strike since April 24. At least 400 female prisoners, jailed for between 15 years and life in Baghdad’s notorious Rusafa prison, are said to be refusing food in protest against their convictions and poor prison conditions, ....
Iraq: Humanitarian Bulletin, April 2021 Format UN Agencies Announce Projects to Support Yazidis In April 2021, two UN agencies in Iraq announced new projects to assist survivors of the Yazidi genocide. The Yazidis are a religious minority whose beliefs and practices span thousands of years, the majority of whom have historically lived in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, near the Syrian border. On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who considered the Yazidis to be heretics launched a sustained attack on the Sinjar region as part of their larger campaign to capture territory in Iraq and impose their extremist ideology. Reports soon emerged of atrocities being committed against the Yazidis: men were tortured, killed or forced to convert to Islam; women and girls were sold at slave markets and held in sexual captivity by ISIL fighters; and young boys were forcibly taken from their families and pushed into service as child soldiers. Thousands ....