U.S. government officials have released a detailed and translated document issued by ISIS that outlines 15 rules on when ISIS militants can have sex with enslaved women. The ruling, issued as a fatwa by ISIS’ Committee of Research and Fatwas, was released publicly by Reuters on Tuesday and had been among a number of documents retrieved by U.S. Special Operations Forces during a raid targeting ISIS officials in Syria in May. Titled as “Fatwa Number 64” with the date “29 January 2015”, the ruling appears to confirm claims that ISIS had abducted and raped thousands of women and girls. According to the document, which can be viewed here and could not be independently verified by Reuters, some “brothers” of ISIS had been committing “violations in the matter of the treatment of female slaves”. The document’s 15 rules are aimed at curbing such violations by clarifying when an “owner” may have sex with his female slave. “It is not permissible for the owner of a female captive to have intercourse with her until after she has had her menstrual cycle and becomes clean,” states the first point. “If she does not menstruate…
