‘ISIS kills 250 women for refusing sex slavery’

The Islamic State has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report.

The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families, for their refusal to be sex slaves in Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul.

ISIS began selecting the women of Mosul and forced them into marrying its militants, calling it temporary marriage since it has taken control over Mosul, and the women who refused to submit to this practice would be executed, said Kurdish Democratic Party spokesman Said Mamuzini.

“At least 250 girls have so far been executed by ISIS for refusing to accept the practice of sexual jihad, and sometimes the families of the girls were also executed for rejecting to submit to ISIS’ request,” Mr Mamuzini told London-based Kurdish news agency AhlulBayt.

Another official from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party Ghayas Surchi said human rights were being widely violated in all ISIS-held territories, particularly the women’s rights as they’re seen as commodities and have no choice in choosing their spouses.

Mr Surchi said women were not allowed to go out alone in Mosul and cannot choose their spouses.

The executions follows a spate of similar killings that took place last August in which 19 Mosul women were slaughtered for refusing to have sex with ISIS fighters, the report said.

Up to 500 Yazidi women and girls were kidnapped and sexually abused by militants in August 2014.

In October, more than 500 Yazidi women and girls were reportedly abducted by the ISIS when they stormed Sinjar region in northern Iraq.