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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Two Yazidi survivors of IS group win Sakharov prize: sources

[Iraqi Yazidi Nadia Murad (L), a former Islamic State group group captive, speaks with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (R) during a meeting in Athens on December 30, 2015]Two Yazidi women activists who escaped the Islamic State group in Iraq have been awarded the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize for this year, European sources told AFP.


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