How ISIS fighters force Yazidi sex slaves to take contraceptive pills and have abortions to keep them available for jihadis SUSBCRIBE: http://goo.gl/4gzeCh FACEBOOK: https://goo.gl/zb7y1G ISIS fighters are reportedly forcing sex slaves to take contraceptives to get round Islamic law which says unmarried women being kept captive must not be pregnant when they are raped. Sexual slavery has become commonplace in the Islamic State, with young women - largely captives from the Yazidi minority group - being bought and sold between fighters. But a ruling in Islamic law states that a man must undertake a period of sexual abstinence, known as Istibra, after buying a new slave - to ensure the women is not pregnant. Not wanting to wait up to a month and to maintain the numbers of slaves, many Islamic fighters have turned to modern medicine to circumvent the laws by which they have chosen to live, those which The practice of forcing women in captivity to take birth control pills, or injecting them with the Depro-Provera hormonal contraceptive themselves has, according to an investigation by the New York Times, become widespread. The newspaper spoke with 37 Yazidi women who had escaped their Islamic State captors. Many of them said that when they were bought by a new fighter, the seller would often be asked to prove that the woman was taking a contraceptive. It had also been reported previously that jihadis would bring their own gynaecologists to 'slave markets' in the Sinjar region of Iraq where captured Yazidi women who were found to be pregnant would be subjected to painful abortions. One woman spoke of being driven to the hospital each month to receive a birth control injection while another was given it in her thigh by the man holding her captive - before he began systematically raping her. Ensuring that a sex slave was not pregnant seemed to be more common among higher-ranked fighters who were more versed in Islamic law. One of the women who spoke to the newspaper said that she told her captor she was pregnant as he was raping her, but apparently high on drugs, he seemed not to care. The Islamic State's allowing of keeping a woman, or a girl, - known as an al-sabi - as a sex slave has been widely reported. As has the group's pamphlet it released detailing the intricacies of how to keep a slave and why it is allowed. The pamphlet states that a woman must be an 'unbeliever', which is why thousands of Yazidi women were taken as sex slaves after ISIS took over Yazidi towns and villages in the Sinjar provice, in August 2014. It is thought that 5,000 Yazidi women were taken captive in 2014 and more than 3,400 women and children are still being held hostage by ISIS. Doctors treating escaped rape victims began noticing a very low rate of pregnancies among women they were treating - often in war zones pregnancy rates rise as rape is commonly used as a weapon during times of conflict. The New York Times spoke with Ministry of Health Directorate, Dr Taib, in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, who said that of the 700 women he had seen, just 35 were pregnant, which was far lower than expected or indeed normal during a war. 'I concluded that either they did an abortion before they came back or they used contraception. And if there were abortions, then there would have been physical signs', he said. 'There were none'. Yazidi women have gradually started coming forward to tell of the horror they suffered at the hands of ISIS captors. This week, 17 year old Nihad Barakat Shamo Alawsi shared her experience of being kidnapped by Islamic State militants during the Sinjar siege. More Vídeos: Angelina Jolie, 40, debuts THREE new tattoos on her back as she continues to direct Khmer Rouge film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pqGFfz5B1Q Geordie Shore's Chloe Ferry suffers an awkward nip slip in garish plunging dress at hair launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgcQIgmq5gg Piper Perri Photo Gallery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b7RVkIJ-mM MISS BUM BUM SUZY CORTEZ BODY PAINT FOR BARCELONA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Nwlvixjbo Pascal Craymer suffers a shocking triple wardrobe fail in a super-plunging thigh-split maxi as she https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6NtmzTF9Y Beyonce slays the Super Bowl half-time show! Queen Bey wows alongside Coldplay and Bruno Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w5nbDily-0 Kylie's tears over Tyga! Jenner breaks down over her on and off again boyfriend in emotional new sne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIvuVH5THM0

• published: 13 Mar 2016
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