Iraqi sentenced to life in prison in Germany for "Yazidi genocide"
A court in Frankfurt, Germany, has sentenced an Iraqi citizen who joined the Islamic State group to life in prison for his role in the genocide of the Yazidis. His German wife was also sentenced to 10 years in prison.
On Tuesday, November 29, AFP reported that Taha al-Jumaili, 29, who joined the Islamic State (IS) group in 2013, was found guilty of genocide against the Yazidis, crimes against humanity resulting in death, war crimes, participation and complicity in war crimes, and causing bodily harm resulting in death.
The report says that after the verdict was announced, the defendant in the case lost consciousness and the court proceedings were temporarily suspended.
The Yazidis, or Yazidis, a minority group in northern Iraq, have been attacked by ISIS. ISIS members have killed Yazidi men, raped their women, and used their children as fighting forces.
In May, the UN Special Rapporteur announced that he had obtained sufficient evidence to support the "commitment of genocide" by the ISIS group against the Yazidis.
Prosecutors in the case said that Taha Al-Jamaili, the defendant in the case, and Jennifer Wenish, his German wife, had purchased and kept a Yazidi woman and a child as "slaves" during their stay in Mosul, Iraq, in 2015.
They then moved to Fallujah. Taha al-Jumaili is accused of chaining the five-year-old girl to a window outside the building in 50-degree Celsius temperatures because she had wet her mattress, and the girl died of extreme thirst.
The girl's mother had previously appeared in courts in Munich and Frankfurt and testified about her daughter's torture and death.
The defendant's German wife was also sentenced to 10 years in prison for "committing crimes against humanity through slavery" and "participating in the murder of the girl by not helping her."
Source: Voice of America
