Macron meets Yazidi Nobel laureate Nadia Murad

French President Emmanuel Macron met  with Yazidi survivor and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Nadia Murad, in Baghdad on Saturday evening.

Murad was captured by Islamic State group militants in 2014, who killed six of her brothers, her mother, and more than 600 Yazidis in her Iraqi village.

She was enslaved, along with most of the young women in her community, and repeatedly raped by the IS fighters.

She escaped after three months in captivity. After relocating to Germany, she used her freedom to become an advocate for Yazidi women who were still under IS captivity.

Murad was the first Iraqi to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, back in 2018.