ISIS documents reveal rules of sex with slave women

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Captured Islamic State (ISIS) documents show that the group has detailed rules and regulation on sex slavery and how its militants are to treat their female slaves.

The documents published by Reuters show ISIS regulations on who can have sex with whom and how militants should follow rules of intercourse with women captured by the group.

The sexual fatwa papers were reportedly among piles of other documents captured by US Special Forces in Syria in May.

“The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on the subject,” Reuters reported, citing a leading Islamic State scholar.

The fatwa shows that ISIS authorities believe their militants have violated the group’s sexual conduct which they claim is in accordance with the Sharia law.

One document starts with a question:  "Some of the brothers have committed violations in the matter of the treatment of the female slaves. These violations are not permitted by Sharia law because these rules have not been dealt with in ages. Are there any warnings pertaining to this matter?"

In addition to allowing enslavement of women, the group then sets 15 codes to explain in detail the dos and don’ts.

For instance, the fatwa forbids sexual intercourse with a woman whose daughter is also enslaved and used as sex slave by the same militant.

"If the owner of a female captive, who has a daughter suitable for intercourse, has sexual relations with the latter, he is not permitted to have intercourse with her mother and she is permanently off limits to him. Should he have intercourse with her mother then he is not permitted to have intercourse with her daughter and she is to be off limits to him,” says an excerpt of the ISIS document, as published by Reuters.

Hundreds of Yezidi women and young girls were captured by ISIS militants last year when they attacked the town of Shingal and they have been missing ever since.

Some rescued women have told harrowing stories of slavery, abuse and rape by the Islamist militants.