Nadia Murad is an Iraqi Yazidi who was tortured and raped by Islamic State (IS) militants and later became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people.
In 2014, she was captured and endured three months as a sex slave at the hands of the militants after they swept through the area of northern Iraq where she lived with her family.
She was bought and sold several times and subjected to sexual and physical abuse during her captivity.
She became an activist for the Yazidi people after escaping in November 2014, campaigning to help put an end to human trafficking and calling on the world to take a tougher line on rape as a weapon of war.
She is the first Iraqi to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
How was she captured?
She was 21 when IS militants attacked her village in northern Iraq, close to the border with Syria. The militants killed those who refused to convert to Islam, including six of her brothers and her mother.
After being captured, she was taken by force to Mosul, the de facto “capital” of IS' self-declared caliphate.
There she was forced to convert to Islam and sold repeatedly for sex as part of IS' slave trade.
In a 2017 memoir about her ordeal, she wrote: “At some point, there was rape and nothing else. This becomes your normal day.”
She initially tried to escape, but was immediately caught by one of the…
