US EditionFrance: a Returnee From Syria Charged with the Crime of Genocide, a First
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Sonia Mejri, 36 years old, had been charged last year for enslaving a Yezidi teenager, a religious minority persecuted by the Islamic State organization. The facts, which she contests, would go back to 2015, while Sonia Mejri lived with an emir of the terrorist group, now her ex-husband. The date of the trial is not yet known.
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estrepublicain.frA 36-year-old French woman is suspected of having been the "guarantee of the confinement" of a young Yazidia reduced to slavery, a technique used by ISIS to break the resistance of this community.
The victim, a Yezidi adolescent, claimed that she had been kidnapped for more than a month in the spring of 2015 in Syria, and could not drink, eat or shower without Sonia Mejri's permission. She also accused Sonia Mejri of having raped her and of knowing that her husband was raping her daily.
Accused of enslaving a Yazidia teenager in the spring of 2015, Sonia Mejri will become the first French woman to be tried for this crime punishable by life imprisonment.
A woman who has returned from Syria will become the first French to be judged for genocide in Paris, after she reduced to slavery a teenager of the Yazidi minority in 2015.
After the non-admission of her appeal, Sonia Mejri, returning from Syria, will become the first French woman to be tried for the crime of genocide, it was reported Tuesday, 7 October. She is accused, with her ex-husband, of having enslaved a Yezidi teenager in the spring of 2015.
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