ISIS is
using encrypted apps to
sell *** slaves
KHANKE, Iraq — The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon."
The posting in Arabic appeared on an
encrypted conversation along with ads for kittens, ******* and tactical gear. It was shared with The Associated Press by an activist with the mi**rity Yazidi community, whose women and children are being held as ***
slaves by the extremists.
While the Islamic State group is losing territory in its self-styled caliphate, it is tightening its grip on the estimated 3,000 women and girls held as *** slaves. In a fusion of ancient barbaric practices and modern tech**logy,
ISIS sells the women like chattel on smartphone
apps and shares databases that contain their photographs and the names of their "owners" to prevent their escape through
ISIS checkpoints. The fighters are assassinating smugglers who rescue the captives, just as funds to buy the women out of slavery are drying up.
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