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A group of women being held hostage by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) were executed for refusing to have sex with the group’s fighters, a Kurdish official said.

A spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party told Iraqi News that ISIL executed 19 women who were being held hostage at the terror group’s Iraqi stronghold in Mosul. They were put to death for refusing to “participate in the practice of sexual jihad,” the spokesman said.

ISIL launched an offensive in Iraq’s northern Sinjar district last year and captured hundreds of women belonging to the Yazidi community, who the jihadists view as heretics.

In October, ISIL put out a pamphlet describing how much it charged for the purchase of its female captives.

“They [ISIL] have a machinery… They have a manual on how you treat these women. They have a marriage bureau which organizes all of these ‘marriages’ and the sale of women… They have a price list,” UN envoy Zainab Bangura said.

According to Amnesty International, hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Yazidi women and girls have been forced to marry, been “sold” or given as “gifts” to ISIL terrorists and their supporters and many, some younger that 14, are held as sexual slaves.

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