Nadia Murad who went through hell and escaped from the clutches of ISIS has now been awarded the Noble Peace Prize for 2018. Nadi is an Iraqi Yazidi who was tortured and raped by Islamic State militants and later she became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people.
When ISIS took over the Yazidi towns and cities in northern Iraq, Murad was one of the 7000 Yazidi women and girls abducted from the villages. She was 20 years old when she was captured and forced to see her family members being driven in trucks.
Her brothers and mother were killed in the massacre and then Murad was shifted to Mosul. She eventually managed to escape when her captors left the house unlocked. The neighbours helped her move out of the clutches of ISIS territory from where she went to a refugee camp in Duhok in Northern Iraq.
She moved to Germany with the help of her sister. From ISIS slave to global champion for women, Murada campaigns tirelessly, telling her story to the world to gain support for Yazidi survivors and defend the rights of marginalised ethnic and religious minorities.
Here she met journalists and became one of the women selected for a refugee programme run by the regional government of Baden-Wurttemberg in South West Germany.
