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Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney said Tuesday she is requesting the transfer of a female member of the Islamic State extremist group to face justice for crimes against women from Iraq’s Yazidi minority and American hostage Kayla Mueller, who was killed in 2015.

Clooney represents Yazidi women and girls who were held in the house of Umm Sayyaf, the wife of Islamic State financier Abu Sayyaf. Mueller, a humanitarian aid worker, was also held there for a time.

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Clooney, the wife of actor George Clooney, told a U.N. Security Council meeting on sexual violence in conflict that the Yazidis were raped by IS men and that Mueller “was held in brutal conditions for over 18 months and raped repeatedly” by the militant group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

“Umm Sayyaf showed no solidarity with her fellow females: She locked them in a room, instigated their beatings and put makeup on them to ‘prepare’ them for rape,” Clooney said. “I am requesting her transfer to the U.S. to face justice for those crimes.”