The young women - Bushra, 21, Munira, 17, and Noor, 22 - were tied up, gang raped and burnt with cigarettes after being forced to marry ISIS fighters. Their names have been changed to protect their identity.

After escaping Iraq, the women were flown to the UK by international charity AMAR, which helps people rebuild their lives following conflict.

Bushra, who tried to kill herself when she was sold to an ISIS extremist, said: 'The man who had bought me took me to hospital.


“He raped me about five times a day... My sister was barely 14 when they raped her... I could hear her screaming but I couldn't do anything as I was tied up”


Bushra, former Yazidi sex slave

'He told me he was going to rape me that same day, however ill I made myself. He took me home, tied up my hands and feet, and raped me.

'He raped me about five times a day. My sister was barely 14 when they raped her... I could hear her screaming but I couldn't do anything as I was tied up.'


Thousands of women and girls from the Yazidi community - an ancient Kurdish ethnic group based in the north of Iraq - have had their lives shattered by ISIS fighters, Amnesty International has said.

The organisation says hundreds, and possibly thousands, have been forced to marry, 'sold' or given as 'gifts' to Islamic State fighters or their supporters - and many held as sexual slaves are girls younger than 14.

Amnesty's researcher Donatella Rovera spoke to more than 40 women who were fortunate enough to escape ISIS captivity in Iraq.

She discovered that some of these abused women and girls were so severely and irreparably traumatised that they have been driven to end their own lives