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Court hears 'ISIS bride' mistreated a woman her family enslaved
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- Zeinab Ahmad has been charged with enslavement and use of a slave.
- Warning: Details of sexual assault in this story may distress some readers.
- Zeinab Ahmad, 31, was among the women arrested when a cohort of women and children returned to Australia after fleeing a Syrian refugee camp earlier this month.
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Zeinab Ahmad has been charged with enslavement and use of a slave. (Illustration: Anita Lester)
Link copied Share Share article Prosecutors have argued that a so-called "ISIS bride" actively participated in the mistreatment of a woman her family enslaved in Syria, as they fought to prevent her from being released on bail.
Warning: Details of sexual assault in this story may distress some readers.
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