US EditionBrussels Court Convicts Belgian Jihadist Presumed Dead of Yazidi Genocide
Sammy Djedou was convicted for genocide and crimes against humanity involving rape and enslavement of Yazidi women during IS’s 2014 campaign, Belgium’s first such trial.
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Sammy Djedou, born near Brussels and having joined the Islamic State organization in Syria in 2012, was tried in his absence, as he was probably killed by an American strike in Rakka. He was accused of having raped, sequestered, beaten and enslaved three young Yezidi women from 2014 to 2016.
For the first time, on 13 November, a court sentenced a man for "genocide crime" against the Yezidi, the Kurdo-speaking minority that was based mainly in northern Iraq before being subjected to the assaults and persecutions of the Islamic State group from August 2014. According to the UN, thousands of women and adolescent girls were raped, abducted and treated inhumanely, including slavery. Yezidi men were killed by hundreds. This unprecedented …
A Belgian extremist who was tried in absentia because he is believed to have died in Syria was found guilty in Brussels today of the "crime of genocide" against the Yazidi minority.
Belgian court finds militant guilty over Yazidi genocide
BRUSSELS: A Brussels court on Thursday found a Belgian militant-- presumed killed in a 2016 airstrike — guilty of genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria. Sammy Djedou, a former fighter with the Daesh group, was reported by the Pentagon to have been killed in Raqqa, Syria. Belgian authorities never received formal confirmation of his death, and opted to
A Belgian jihadist, tried by default because presumed dead in Syria, was found guilty of "genocide crime" against the Yezidis minority on Thursday in Brussels, in the first trial held in Belgium on this extermination undertaking led by the Islamic State group. ...
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