Isis: Yazidi families pay $20,000 ransoms to free their loved ones from Daesh slavery

Yazidi women and children are being bought back from their Islamic State (Isis) captors in secretive deals involving Muslim middle-men operating across borders in Syria and Iraq, IBTimes UK can reveal.

 

IS (Daesh) sells the young boys and girls for between $2,000 (£1,340) and $20,000 (£13,400) and until recently the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was paying the ransoms. The KRG has since stopped paying, citing financial constraints, but said it is committed to working to free all Yazidi captives held by IS.

 

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