![]() With the help of human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, Murad took her case to the United Nations, insisting that perpetrators of sexual war crimes be brought to justice as individuals. Since her escape, Murad has been vocal about the plight of the Yazidi community. Nadia realized for the first time how her story, a “personal tragedy, could be someone else’s political tool.” Incorporating this theme in her narrative, she continues to raise awareness for Yazidis still persecuted and held captive by ISIS. Accounts confirmed that ISIS had found out that Nasser had helped Murad escape, later seizing him and his brothers. The broadcast featured Murad and Nasser, a pseudonym, showing their faces and putting all at risk of ISIS retaliation. ![]() That same night, however, the group broadcast the tape on national television as political propaganda against a rival Kurdish group to highlight the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s inability to protect the Yazidis in Sinjar, abandoning them to ISIS militants. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan border officers insisted that Nadia, with Nasser’s input, narrate her harrowing experiences on camera before she was granted entry and promised only officials would see the tape. However, little respite awaited Nadia in Kurdistan. ![]() After three brutal months in captivity, sold multiple times by various ISIS militants, Nadia managed to escape with the help of a Sunni Arab man, Nasser, and his family – pretending to be his wife as they fled to Iraqi Kurdistan. ![]()
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