Rita Habib () is an Iraqi Assyrian woman who was kidnapped and used as an ISIS sex slave in 2014. She lived in

Qaraqosh Qaraqosh (; (official name), or , also known as al-Ḥamdāniyya or Qara-Qūš; a Turkic placename meaning "Black Bird") is an Assyrian city in the Nineveh Governorate, of Iraq located about southeast of the city of Mosul and west of Erbil am ...

, northern Iraq. Habib was captured in 2014 and sold into ISIS sex slavery. She was bought and sold four times, until the fifth men who bought her for £20,000, posing as jihadists, turned out to be the ones to rescue her. She had traveled to Turkey with her father in 2014 in an attempt to safeguard her father and her from ISIS who had taken over her hometown. However, on reaching home again, she was then kidnapped and taken as a slave. In 2017, she returned home after three years. Her memoirs were published and translated to different languages.

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