London: Captives who claim to being used as sex slaves by the ISIS allege that their captors force them to take contraceptive measures like pills to avoid getting pregnant.
According to the Independent Isis fighters are forcing them to take birth control pills to allow them continue raping them. The practice emerged to circumvent a ruling in the Islamic law used by ISIS which states a man cannot rape his slave if they are carrying a child.
Pills which control birth and injections are forcefully used on captives in order to stop them from becoming pregnant so they can repeatedly raped and sold between their captors.
Another ruling in Islamic law says a man must ensure his newly-bought slave is not carrying another man’s child by abstaining from having sex with her for a month, in a process known as Istibra.
According to one of the sex slaves interviewed by the New York Times, “Every day, I had to swallow one in front of him. He gave me one box per month. When I ran out, he replaced it. When I was sold from one man to another, the box of pills came with me.”
When some slaves were sold between fighters, their owners provided the box of birth control as proof they were not pregnant. At least one pregnant woman was forced to take abortion pills. Another pregnant slave was repeatedly punched in the stomach after refusing to have an abortion.
