EU awards 2 ex-ISIS sex slaves its top human rights prize
The European Parliament on Thursday awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to two Yazidi women, Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, for their human rights campaign. Murad and Bashar had been held by the Islamic State as sex slaves and started campaigning against the group after escaping to Germany. Notably, ISIS considers the sect Yazidis as devil worshippers.