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Lamiya Aji Bashar

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Occupation
  
Human rights activist

Years active
  
2014–present

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Full Name
  
Lamiya Aji Bashar

Born
  
1998 (age 18–19)
Kocho, Iraq

Similar
  
Nadia Murad, Andrei Sakharov, Raif Badawi

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Lamiya Aji Bashar (Kurdish: لمياء حجي بشار) is a Yazidi human rights activist. She was awarded the Sakharov Prize jointly with Nadia Murad in 2016.

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Biography

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Aji Bashar is from Kocho, near Sinjar, Iraq. In August 2014, along with Nadia Murad, she was abducted by Islamic State from the village and forced into sexual slavery. She was also forced to make suicide vests.

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Aided by her family who paid local smugglers, she escaped in April 2016, being injured by a land mine in the process. She received medical treatment in Germany. In October 2016, she and Murad were jointly awarded the Sakharov Prize; the ceremony took place in December 2016.

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