Amal Clooney and two other lawyers say a group of Yazidi women victimized by Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria have applied to join a criminal case against French cement company Lafarge.
In June, the multinational firm was handed preliminary charges in France that included financing a terrorist enterprise and complicity in crimes against humanity. Lafarge has acknowledged funneling money to Syrian armed organizations, allegedly including Daesh, to guarantee safe passage for employees and to supply its Syrian plant.
In a statement Friday, Clooney said the Yazidi women were the victims of "forced displacement, executions, kidnappings, and ... sexual enslavement."
She said the case is a chance to hold perpetrators to account.
Lafarge has said the company as a whole was not responsible for wrongdoing.
AP
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