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ISIS brides to stay in jail over ‘slavery’ charges · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian I'm Christinamio with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Two women accused of buying and keeping
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  Speaker 1: a slave in Syria will remain in prison after delaying
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  Speaker 1: their bid to apply for bail. The women, Corsa Abbas,
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  Speaker 1: who's fifty four, and her thirty one year old daughter,
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  Speaker 1: zeenab Ahmad, flew home to Australia from Assyrian refugee camp
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  Speaker 1: last week. They'd been in the region since leaving Australia
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  Speaker 1: to join the so called Islamic State terror group in
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. They're accused of buying a woman for ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand American dollars and are facing charges of crimes against humanity,
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  Speaker 1: including enslavement, trading enslaves, and using a slave. The ISIS movement,
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  Speaker 1: which aimed to set up a global caliphate of Islamic
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  Speaker 1: Sharia law, committed horrific offenses against the Yazidi community, an
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  Speaker 1: ethnic minority who fled to northern Iraq's mountains as ISIS
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  Speaker 1: fighters sought to wipe them out. The Yazidis are pre
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  Speaker 1: predominantly from the Kurdish ethnic group and practice a blend
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  Speaker 1: of Islam Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism. They've been persecuted for
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of years and were the victims of an attempted
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  Speaker 1: genocide by ISIS, as well as mass sexual violence and enslavement.
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  Speaker 1: Abbas and Ahmad were expected to apply for bail on
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  Speaker 1: Monday in the Melbourne Magistrates Court, but dropped that plan.
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  Speaker 1: Another of the returning Isis brides, Janai Safar, who's thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: is charged with entering and remaining in a declared conflict
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  Speaker 1: zone and joining a prescribed terrorist organization. A netball mum
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  Speaker 1: who's facing charges of alleged racist abuse of a Jewish
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  Speaker 1: under twelve girls team says she has no problem with Jews.
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  Speaker 1: The woman, who was on the sidelines at a match
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  Speaker 1: between the Jewish community club Maccabi and Saints Netball Club
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, is forty two years old and was initially
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  Speaker 1: told to move on by police, then charged with using
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  Speaker 1: offensive life language in a public place. A lawyer she's retained,
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  Speaker 1: Paul McGirr, said she would be defending the charges and
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  Speaker 1: the remarks had been taken out of context. McGirr said
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  Speaker 1: the woman had no problem with the Jewish community. The
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  Speaker 1: woman will face Waverley Local Court on June seventeen. She's
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  Speaker 1: been banned from attending matches and the Saints Netball Club
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  Speaker 1: has said the club rejected anti Semitism of any kind.
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