2023-06-22 03:51:04
Catherine Armstrong BBC News
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Germany has prosecuted and imprisoned German women who traveled to Iraq and Syria to join ISIS
A German court sentenced a German woman to nine years in prison, following convicting her of joining the Islamic State (ISIS) and committing crimes, including enslaving a Yazidi woman in Iraq and Syria.
The accused was also convicted of crimes once morest humanity and membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
A court in the western city of Koblenz in Germany said that the 37-year-old woman had abused the young Yazidi woman for three years while she was staying with her in Syria and Iraq.
The court also found that the German woman had encouraged her husband to rape and beat the woman while she was in detention.
“This served the stated purpose of ISIS, which is to eliminate the Yazidis,” prosecutors said at the start of the trial in January.
And in 2014, ISIS militants stormed the historical stronghold of the Yazidis, where their ancestors lived, in northern Iraq.
The Yazidis fled to Mount Sinjar. But many were killed and regarding 7,000 women and girls were taken as captives and enslaved by the elements of the Islamic State.
Among those young women, whom the prosecution said was the German accused, Nadine Kayeh, and her husband had exploited her as a slave since 2016, when they moved to the city of Mosul in Iraq.
The accused and her husband traveled to Syria to join the extremist organization a year ago, specifically in 2015, and then returned to Iraq with the young Yazidi woman, who was in her early twenties at the time.
In March 2019, German Kurdish forces arrested Nadine Kayeh and her family in Syria. After being returned to Germany, she was arrested last year to stand trial.
During her trial, Nadine denied forcing the Yazidi woman to do anything, but said she should have done more for her.
The Yazidi girl, who was liberated in 2019, gave her testimony in court last February, and was present during her sentencing on Wednesday.
Her lawyer said his client had hoped all those who had committed similar crimes would be brought to justice, according to the Associated Press news agency.
There have been a number of trials in Germany recently involving former members of the Islamic State accused of killing or abusing Yazidis.
In October 2021, a woman was jailed for 10 years for the murder of a Yazidi girl she and her husband bought as a slave.
A month later, a German court issued the world’s first ruling recognizing ISIS’s crimes once morest the Yazidis as genocide.
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