Islamic State: Hundreds of women on hunger strike at Iraqi prison
At least 400 women are in the second week of a hunger strike in a high-security prison in Iraq's capital Baghdad, the BBC has learned./ They are in prison for being part of the Islamic State group, after what they say were unfair trials./ The group is said to include foreign nationals from Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Syria, France, Germany and the US./ It is thought about 100 children are also being held at the facility./ The Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, waged a brutal campaign to establish a self-declared caliphate - ...
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