RFE/RL: Yazidi activists win Europe’s Sakharov Prize

This file photo taken on June 21, 2016 shows Nadia Murad, human rights activist, testifying during Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. Two Yazidi women activists who escaped the Islamic State group in Iraq have been awarded the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize for this year on October 27, 2016, European sources told AFP. The prize will go to Nadia Murad and Lamia Haji Bashar -- who campaign to protect their Yazidi people and were enslaved by IS -- during a midday session of the assembly in Strasbourg, France, the sources told AFP. (AFP)