An international human rights organization is documenting the horrors endured by women held captive by the Islamic State.
The Amnesty International report, entitled "Escape from Hell," is based on interviews with more than 40 Yazidi women and girls taken captive when ISIS overran their town in northern Iraq.
Most of the girls were forced to marry, sold, or given as "gifts" to ISIS fighters. Others committed suicide rather than submit to sexual torture by the jihadists.
One Iraqi activist said at least eight women were stoned to death for alleged adultery in Mosul and another 10 were stoned for speaking out against the group. One woman, a dentist, was reportedly beheaded for treating both men and women.
The report provides detailed accounts of the atrocities committed against women and girls by members of the Islamic State.
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