THEY were kidnapped and then subjected to months of brutal sexual assaults.
And
is if being the sex slave of an Islamic State fighter isn’t horrific
enough, countless women and girls were then subjected to further
humiliation — barbaric and appalling virginity tests.Those who escaped and survived to reveal the horrors that they endured at the hands of Islamic State militants were forced to undergo the tests conducted by Kurdistan officials, according to Human Rights Watch.
“The girls underwent the abusive and inaccurate procedure as part of a forensic, post-rape examination” HRW Researcher, Women’s Rights Division Rothna Begum said in a recent Dispatches report.
She said the tests were seen as evidence of rape by Iraqi courts, despite the World Health Organisation stating definitively that “virginity tests” have no scientific validity.
“They are based on a commonly held but inaccurate belief that all women and girls who are virgins have intact hymens that bleed on first intercourse,” she said.
“As such they are ineffective for determining whether a woman or girl has been raped.”
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