PARIS: A Yazidi woman who was held as a sex slave by the Daesh group testified Thursday before a French court, describing in stark detail the horrors she endured under militant captivity.
The 32-year-old spoke in a Paris tribunal as part of the trial of French militant Sabri Essid, who is being prosecuted in absentia on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and complicity in these crimes.
It is the first case in France to address atrocities committed against the Yazidi minority during the Daesh campaign in the Middle East.
Essid is presumed to have been killed in 2018, but without proof of his death he is being tried in absentia charged with crimes committed between 2014 and 2016.
The woman, whose name AFP is withholding to protect her privacy, spent about two-and-a-half years in the hands of Daesh fighters.
