Yazidi woman flees Germany after encountering her Islamic State captor in the street

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Yazidi woman flees Germany after encountering her Islamic State captor in the street
Lewis Sanders IV, Deutsche Welle Published 6:58 a.m. ET Aug. 17, 2018

Yazidi woman Ashwaq Haji, allegedly used by the Islamic State as a sex slave, visits the Lalish temple in tribute to the jihadists' victims from her village of Kocho near Sinjar, in Lalish, northern Iraq, on August 15, 2018. Haji, 19, says she ran into her captor in a German supermarket in February. Traumatized by the encounter, she returned to Iraq the next month.(Photo: AFP/Getty)

A young Yazidi woman has fled Germany with her family after encountering the Islamic State (ISIS) fighter who had enslaved her in Mosul on the streets of Schwäbisch Gmünd, a town in Baden-Württemberg.

Ashwaq Haji Hamid arrived in the southwestern state with her family in 2015 through a program aimed at assisting Yazidi women who had been subjected to violence by ISIS.

Read more at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/08/17/yazidi-woman-encounters-her-islamic-state-captor-germany/1017040002/