Mohammed Ahmad
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Mohammed Ahmad is an Australian human rights worker.[1]
He claims he was working, as a human rights worker, in Daesh territory, along with his wife and ten children, but he was never affiliated with Daesh.[1] Nevertheless, he was detained after Daesh's collapse, as if he had been a foreign volunteer, along with his wife Kawsar Abbas, and ten of his children and grandchildren.
His eldest daughter, Zahra Ahmad, married Muhammad Zahab, in Daesh, becoming his second wife.[1] Zahab, who was killed in 2018, is said to have been the most senior Australian in Daesh, and to have played a role in tricking or recruiting dozens of other Australians to Daesh territory.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports two of his sons, and four sons-in-law, died in combat.[1]
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news show Foriegn Correspondent broadcast an episode on the plight of Yazidi girls and women who were enslaved under Daesh.[2][3] In this episode two Yazidi's, girls at the time of the Daesh occupation, identified Ahmad as someone who held one of them as a slave. Ahmad acknowledged living in a house where a Yazidi girl was held, but asserted the house was his son's house, and the girl was not his slave.
In a 2023 interview Ahmad described conditions in his prison as "dire". He called on the Australian government to tell its citizens what its plans were for them.[2]
| name | relationship | birth | death | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kawsar Abbas | wife |
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| Zahra Ahmad | daughter |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Nino Bucci, Suzanne Dredge (2019-10-19). "How 12 Australian family members ended up detained in Syria after the fall of Islamic State". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20191019205059/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-20/family-detained-in-syria-facing-grim-prospect-australian-return/11606660. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stephanie March (2023-07-26). "ISIS tried to exterminate the Yazidis. These women survived life inside the caliphate". Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Foriegn Correspondent. Archived from the original on 2023-07-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20230726190122/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-27/yazidi-genocide-isis-abduction-slavery/102623522. Retrieved 2024-03-16. "Ahmad told the ABC in the 2019 interview that there was a Yazidi slave living in his house but she was treated "like a daughter" and that she belonged to his now-dead son."
- ↑ "Film: Surviving ISIS". Journeyman TV. https://www.journeyman.tv/film_documents/8521/transcript/. Retrieved 2023-05-07. "She identifies her captor as Mohammed Ahmad from Melbourne, who she knew as Abu Omar. He's being held in a Syrian prison without charge and denies being a member of ISIS. Sarab's friend Tayseer alleges she was later a slave to Abu Omar for more than a year. In 2019, he gave an interview to the ABC."
- ↑ "BRING THE AUSSIES BACK HOME". Change.org. https://www.change.org/p/bring-the-aussies-back-home. Retrieved 2023-05-07. "Kawsar abbas, her 5 daughters and her 5 grandchildren are stuck in Al Roj camp and are awaiting rescue from the Australian government but it’s become a race against time with now receiving news that the guards in the camp will be taking Kawsar’s grandson to jail any day now."
