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Muslim Arab women also raped and tortured by Daesh, HRW says

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BAGHDAD Feb 20, 2017 - 12:00 am GMT+3
An internally displaced Syrian woman who fled Raqqa city covers herself with a blanket while resting in northern Raqqa province, Syria February 6, 2017 (Reuters Photo)
An internally displaced Syrian woman who fled Raqqa city covers herself with a blanket while resting in northern Raqqa province, Syria February 6, 2017 (Reuters Photo)
by Feb 20, 2017 12:00 am

Fighters from the Daesh terrorist group, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and torturing Muslim Arab women too, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

The watchdog documented cases of arbitrary detentions, beatings, forced marriages and rape by the terrorists on women who have fled the town of Hawijah, which is still under Daesh control.

HRW recounted the story of Hanan, a 26-year-old whose husband had already fled Hawijah, who was captured by Daesh fighters along with other women when they also attempted to escape the town.

Daesh fighters told her that her husband's flight made her an apostate and that she should marry the local terrorist leader.

When she refused, she was blindfolded, beaten with plastic cables, suspended by her arms for some time and then raped.

"The same guy raped me every day for the next month without a blindfold, always in front of my children," Hanan told HRW.

The group said the issue was not given enough attention and that too little was being done to tackle the stigma that prevents many more victims from coming forward.

"Little is known about sexual abuse against Sunni Arab women living under Daesh rule," said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at HRW.

"We hope that the international community and local authorities will do all they can to give this group of victims the support they need," she said.

The Daesh group, which proclaimed a so called "caliphate" straddling Iraq and Syria in June 2014, considers everyone, who does not follow their perverted vision of the religion as 'apostates.'

Its fighters have justified the mass rape and sexual enslavement of women from the Yazidi minority - who are neither Arab nor Muslim - on the grounds that they are polytheists.

The accounts collected by HRW often refer to Daesh fighters accusing the women of apostasy, or abandoning their faith, before abusing them.

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