The ISIS militant group has executed 19 women in its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul for refusing to have
sex with fighters, a Kurdish official has claimed.
Said Mimousini, a spokesperson for the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), said that ISIS’s treatment of women and dealings with money were proving to be increasingly
divisive within the organisation’s own ranks.
The official said that the executions, which could not be independently verified, took place during the weekend of August 1 and 2.
“ISIS (has) executed 19 women in the city of Mosul during the past two days,” he told Iraqi News on Monday. “The penalty decision came on the background of the refusal to participate in the practice of sexual jehad.”
Mimousini’s claims come just days after a UN official said she had witnessed the circulation of a child slave “price list” among ISIS fighters in Syria and Iraq.
Zainab Bangura, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict, told Bloomberg that girls get “peddled like barrels of petrol”, and are sometimes bought so they can be sold to their families for thousands of dollars in ransom money.
Meanwhile on Thursday, ISIS was reported to have seized a key town in central Syria following a period of heavy skirmishes with Government forces.