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Islamic State: Hundreds of Women on Hunger Strike at Iraqi Prison
BBC ^ | 5/5 | Murad Shishani & Nick Sturdee

Posted on 05/05/2023 1:11:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway

At least 400 women are in the second week of a hunger strike in a high-security prison in Iraq's capital Baghdad, the BBC has learned.

They are in prison for being part of the Islamic State group, after what they say were unfair trials.

The group is said to include foreign nationals from Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Syria, France, Germany and the US.

It is thought about 100 children are also being held at the facility. The Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, waged a brutal campaign to establish a self-declared caliphate - an Islamic nation - across Syria and Iraq, killing and enslaving thousands across a five-year period.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hungerstrike; iraqiprison; islamicstate; ohnoes; savesonfoodcost; toobad

1 posted on 05/05/2023 1:11:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

ISIS women are despicable.


2 posted on 05/05/2023 1:19:26 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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They may be foreign nationals, as far as countries go, but the majority of them were born into Muslim families and knew what they were getting into when they left their countries.


3 posted on 05/05/2023 1:21:49 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Black widow spiders aren't the only species that eats their mate after finishing with them. )
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To: nickcarraway

I always wonder who cares if prisoners go on hunger strikes. Doesn’t it just mean that the prison saves money on food?


4 posted on 05/05/2023 1:22:41 PM PDT by Varda
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To: nickcarraway

They are Moslems who cares about their lives?


5 posted on 05/05/2023 1:23:57 PM PDT by rellic
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To: rellic

God


6 posted on 05/05/2023 1:27:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Agreed.
but as non Moslem that their cult
teaches can be butchered, enslaved, or
raped at a whim, I reserve my right to self
defense,


7 posted on 05/05/2023 1:47:46 PM PDT by rellic
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To: nickcarraway

There will be hundreds of body bags coming out of that prison. The goverment there doesn’t care about protesters, not an iota.


8 posted on 05/05/2023 2:38:38 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: nickcarraway

One thing I have never understood. Who cares if someone or a group of people go on a hunger strike??Let them starve for a while, they will eventually eat when they get good and hungry.


9 posted on 05/05/2023 2:43:56 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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Its ok as long as they aren’t being oppressed by white cops


10 posted on 05/05/2023 2:52:20 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s a bad image for the country just the same. The message gets out that women who are or could be mothers would rather starve than be ruled by the regime and it undercuts the rulers’ authority and what legitimacy they claim to have to rule. Even sullen compliance via applied fear is better than outright rejection in terms of PR and propaganda.

The first bodies coming out of that prison will be a public relations nightmare for that regime. It will really paint them as the bullies that they are!


11 posted on 05/05/2023 3:00:54 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Varda

Indeed the prison saves money on food.


12 posted on 05/05/2023 4:17:06 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: rellic

Not me! I’ve had enough of muzzies and their death cult!


13 posted on 05/05/2023 4:17:50 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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