AFP An ISIS prison guard escaped the terror group after jihadis raped a teenage girl and left her to die

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The guard witnessed ISIS fighters use female prisoners as sex slaves after the terror group declared a caliphate in 2014. Identified only as Nizar, the guard said hundreds of women were arrested and separated from their children to become sex slaves. Nizar, told the International Centre for the Study of Violent Extremism, life under ISIS in Syria was good to begin with. He said: “When they first came, things were very good. It really felt like Islam. We started going to the mosque. A sheikh would give lessons in the Koran.”

They were imprisoned, whipped and beaten Nizar

Nizar says he and his wife were told ISIS was right and there would be no injustice under their regime. He started work at the religious police’s prison and was in charge of guarding prisoners - men and women- serving time for breaking Sharia law. Nizar said: “They were imprisoned, whipped and beaten. After two or three days they were released.” Up to 500 Yazidi women were also held at the centre.

PA Nizar worked as a guard in a prison run by ISIS' religious police

He said: “When I walked down the corridor, I was shocked looking at all these women. “Some of the Yazidi girls would cry.” Nizar said the situation escalated when ISIS fighters from outside Syria and Iraq heard new female prisoners had arrived. The fighters would cheer and choose a woman each to be their sex slave or force them into marriage, with the prisoners terrified if they did not comply they would be executed. He said: “So the prison warden would bring 10 foreign fighters at a time because they could not be brought in all at once. We would guard the doors and they would go in and choose a captive woman.”

ANADOLU ISIS declared a caliphate in 2014 and have left death and destruction as they flee Iraqi forces

AFP Yazidi Nadia Murad was captured and raped by ISIS fighters before managing to escape

As ISIS’s brutality was laid bare Nazir said he struggled to cope and the case of a 15-year-old girl forced him to escape. A Sudanese ISIS militant picked the teenage girl as his slave and raped her in his cell. Nizar said: “She started bleeding badly. An ambulance came to take her. The girl had internal bleeding and died from the injuries. “I was warned not to speak about the incident. They said: ‘Captives are captives. Do as you please with them’.” Nizar, who now lives in Turkey with his wife, plotted his escape from Syria after being granted three days leave.

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