Lamiya Haji Bashar (

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: لمياء حجي بشار) is a

Yazidi Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The ma ...

human rights activist. She was awarded the Sakharov Prize jointly with

Nadia Murad Nadia Murad Basee Taha (; ar, نادية مراد باسي طه; born 10 March 1993) is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three mon ...

in 2016.

Biography

Haji Bashar is from

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, near

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, Iraq. In August 2014, along with

, she was abducted by

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from the village and forced into sexual slavery. She was also forced to make suicide vests. Aided by her family who paid local smugglers, she escaped in April 2016, being injured by a

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in the process. She received medical treatment in

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. In October 2016, she and Murad were jointly awarded the Sakharov Prize; the ceremony took place in December 2016.

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Biography

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