An ISIL (ISIS) member who enslaved a Yazidi woman and participated in war crimes and genocide has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison by a German court.
According to a court spokesperson in the western city of Koblenz, the German defendant, 37, known only as Nadine K, was also found guilty of crimes against humanity and affiliation with a foreign terrorist group.
Between December 2014 and March 2019, the defendant traveled to Syria with her husband to enlist in ISIL.
The couple relocated to Iraq’s Mosul in 2015 before returning to Syria.
A Yazidi woman who had been detained by ISIL since 2014 was kept as a slave by the pair starting in April 2016.
When the woman, who was 22 at the time, attempted to flee, Nadine K kept watch to stop her and made her perform housework and adhere to strict Islamic rituals.
Nadine K’s husband regularly beat and raped the Yazidi woman with the knowledge of the defendant.
Prosecutors stated at the start of the trial earlier this year, “All of this served the declared purpose of IS (Islamic State/ISIL), to wipe out the Yazidi faith.”
When returning to Syria’s ISIL-controlled territory in 2016, Nadine K and her family are thought to have taken the woman with them, where they stayed until March 2019.
After the family had been taken into custody by Kurdish fighters, the Yazidi woman was finally set free.
In one of several repatriation operations last year, the defendant returned to Germany; upon arrival, she was detained.
In a verdict hailed by activists as a “historic” victory for the minority, a German court in November 2021 became the first court in the world to recognize crimes against the Yazidi community as genocide.
Germany today has about 150,000 Yazidis living there.
Source-Aljazeera
