IS openly sells 'sex slaves' on Facebook

(Baonghean.vn) - Members of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization have posted shocking advertisements on Facebook, selling women as sex slaves for prices starting from 5,500 pounds (about 180 million VND).

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The posted photos are all of young women around 18 years old, and are accompanied by the "price" to "buy" these victims.

Facebook quickly removed the IS ad, but it also exposed the harsh and painful reality that hostages held by IS are experiencing, as they are turned into commodities to be bought and sold by money-hungry gunmen.

The ads, posted by an IS member named Abu Assad Almani, read: “To all the brothers who are thinking about buying a slave, this slave is priced at $8,000.”

The Middle East Media Research Institute has also been keeping an eye on the ads. “We’ve seen a lot of atrocities, but the content that ISIS has been spreading over the past two years has been beyond the extreme,” said Steven Stalinsky, a senior fellow at the institute. “The sale of young girls as slaves on social media is just another example of this problem.”

Thao Linh

(According to Metro)