18-year-old Yazidi escapee reveals Islamic State slave market

An 18-year-old Yazidi girl, Jinan who escaped from Islamist State jihadists after being captured in 2014 will be releasing her book on Friday about how the group carries out an international "slave market" where women are sold as sexual slaves, Yahoo! News reported. 

In her book, Jinan talks about how she was moved across locations before being bought by two men, a policeman and an imam. The purchase of women she says would be carried out by traders who acted as the middle men between the slave owners and emirs who would inspect the women and then buy them.

"I will exchange your Beretta pistol for the brunette, If you prefer to pay cash it is $150 (133 euros). You can also pay in Iraqi dinars," she had heard one of the traders say. 

Talking more about the trade she said that every man is only allowed to purchase three women unless he is from Syria, Turkey or Gulf as they have higher costs to pay. But this also means a lot of profits for the Islamic State group which is further used to support the mujahideen. The most good-looking women would be reserved for Gulf nation clients, she added.

The women were further tortured by being forced to convert and if they didn't conform, they would be beaten up or chained. She said there were women from Syria, Iraq and other nationalities who had been captured and were being traded.

Jinan managed to escape only after three months with the help of stolen keys and is currently living with her husband at a Yazidi refugee camp in Kurdistan which is under international protection.