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VOA documentary wins a Gabriel award

May 22, 2020

The Voice of America won a Gabriel Award for its documentary Hell and Hope about the plight of Yazidi girls abducted by ISIS terrorists in 2014 from Sinjar province in Iraq. VOA producer Amish Srivastava and correspondent Dakhil Elias traveled to Germany to meet and record interviews with Yazidi girls who escaped captivity and settled in Europe. The Yazidi are members of a Kurdish religious minority found primarily in northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, and northern Syria. Read More