Germany: Iraqi Sentenced to Life for Enslaving Yazidi Girls
The Munich court said the pair held two Yazidi girls captive for years and handed down life and 9.5-year sentences.
- On Monday, the Munich Higher Regional Court sentenced Twana H.S. to life imprisonment and Asia R.A. to nine and a half years for enslaving and abusing two Yazidi girls linked to the Islamic State.
- Prosecutors said the couple became Islamic State members between 2015 and 2017, purchasing a five-year-old Yazidi girl at a Mosul bazaar at Asia's request before acquiring a twelve-year-old girl in 2017.
- During the trial, evidence showed Twana repeatedly raped both children, while Asia "scalded the younger girl's hand with hot water" and forced them to perform household labor.
- The Munich Higher Regional Court applied universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed overseas, though the second Yazidi girl remains missing following the couple's systematic abuse.
- Germany formally recognizes these acts as genocide, with The Federal Public Prosecutor stating the defendants participated in the Islamic State's objective to destroy the Yazidi religion.
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German Court Jails IS Couple Over Yazidi Slave Girls
An Iraqi former member of the Islamic State has been sentenced to life in prison by a German court for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity after he and his wife enslaved and abused two young Yazidi girls in Iraq. The Higher Regional Court in Munich delivered the verdict on Monday, finding that the man, identified as Twana H.S., and his wife bought the girls, aged five and 12, as slaves in 2015 and 2017 while living under Islamic St…
A German court has convicted a man and woman from Iraq for exploiting two Yazidi girls. The children were held as slaves and raped in Iraq. The man and woman had joined the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). The 45-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for, among other things, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and raping the two girls. His former partner (30) was convicted under juvenile criminal law due to h…
The man and woman who enslaved the two girls were members of the Islamic State.
The court finds it proved that both the convicted man and his wife bought the two Yazidi girls in Iraq, exploited them as slaves and that the man also sexually abused them.
Germany hands Iraqi couple lengthy prison sentences over Yazidi girls' enslavement
A German court on Monday sentenced an Iraqi man to life in prison for enslaving and abusing two Yazidi girls, who were later handed over to Islamic State (ISIS) militants. His former partner received
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