title: iran grabs nd victory at asian roller skating championships
text: eu in this december   photo iraqi izadi nadia murad basee c is welcomed by greek president prokopis pavlopoulos r before their meeting in athens photo by ap 
  the european parliament has awarded two iraqi women from the izadi minority group its prestigious human rights prize 
  on thursday nadia murad and lamia haji bashar won the european parliaments prestigious sakharov prize for freedom of thought for their plight when they along with other women and girls were abducted tortured and sexually abused by daesh terrorists after the militants overran northern iraq two years ago 
  the two were awarded the prize as part of efforts to protect the izadis who are followers of an ancient religion mostly practiced by more than half a million people in northern iraq 
  the community members especially women have been subject to torture sexual abuse and slavery by daesh 
  european parliament chief martin schulz hailed the two izadi women for their bravery saying they hada painful and tragic story but felt compelled to survive to bear witness 
  the courage of these two women and the dignity they represent defies all description schulz told the assembly in strasbourg this photo taken on may   shows lamia haji bashar an yearold izadi girl who escaped daesh in northern iraq photo by ap 
  daesh abducted murad from her home village of kocho near iraqs northern town of sinjar in august  the slight softlyspoken young woman who is now  was then brought to the city of mosul where she was tortured and raped 
  bashar from the same village was enslaved and sold two years ago after watching the slaughter of her family and friends by daesh the yearold then fell prey to an iraqi hospital director after  months of captivity she later lost her right eye in a mine explosion which hit one of her friends 
  the annual sakharov human rights prize honors individuals who combat intolerance fanaticism and oppression it is named after dissident soviet scientist andrei sakharov who died in  loading