Yazidi Activist: Islamic State Detains Women and Children in Underground Prisons in Syria - It's Over 9000!

Yazidi Activist: Islamic State Detains Women and Children in Underground Prisons in Syria

The Iraqi News published a report says that Yazidi women and children are kept by the Islamic State in underground prisons in Syria, according to Yazidi activist.

Speaking to the Russian Sputnik news agency, Hussein Ali al-Khansouri said Islamic State holds no less than 2000 people at regions of Sousa, Hegeen, Shoafa and Baguz in Syria’s Deir az-Zour province as well as Desheisha region, near borders between Syria and Iraq. Among the abductees are Yazidi women and children.

“At Desheisha only, there are are more than 300 Yazidi children and adults, who were kidnapped by IS in August 2014,” he said.

All the above mentioned regions, according to Khansouri, “are being shelled by the U.S.-led Coalition as well as French jets, especially near Desheish and Hegeen.”

In February, Eidan al-Sheikh Kalo, head of the Yazidi affairs department in Duhuk, said the total number of Yazidi survivors who were held by IS since August 2014 reached 3,259 persons, with 2,076 females. The total number of Yazidi men and women who were held by IS since 2014 eached 6,417 persons, including children.

Reporting by: Nehal Mostafa/ Iraqi News

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