Lamiya Haji Bashar (

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: لمياء حجي بشار) is a

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human rights activist. She was awarded the

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jointly with

Nadia Murad Nadia Murad Basee Taha (; ; born 10 March 1993) is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist based in Germany. In 2014, during the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State, she was abducted from her hometown of Kocho in Iraq. Much of her communi ...

in 2016.

Biography

Haji Bashar is from Kocho, near

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, Iraq. In August 2014, along with

, she was abducted by

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from the village and forced into sexual slavery. She was also forced to make suicide vests. Aided by her family who paid local smugglers, she escaped in April 2016, being injured by a

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in the process. She received medical treatment in

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. In October 2016, she and Murad were jointly awarded the

; the ceremony took place in December 2016.

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Biography

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