Fleeing Iraqi Women Tell of Harsh Treatment in Mosul
To earn extra income for her family, Iman Iraqi set up a home business doing wedding makeup for brides in the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul. She lived to regret it. When the extremist group’s religious police found out, they stormed her house, confiscated her equipment and detained her and her brother. They made Ms. […]Margherita Stancati writes for The Wall Street Journal:
To earn extra income for her family, Iman Iraqi set up a home business doing wedding makeup for brides in the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul. She lived to regret it.
When the extremist group’s religious police found out, they stormed her house, confiscated her equipment and detained her and her brother. They made Ms. Iraqi sign a pledge she wouldn’t reopen the salon, or her brother would be lashed.
Ms. Iraqi is among more than 50,000 civilians who have fled the city of over 1 million people in the weeks since Iraqi and Kurdish forces launched an offensive last month to retake the city. She and about two dozen other women recounted living like prisoners in their homes for more than two years under a system that made them invisible.
