A German court sentenced a woman to more than nine years in prison for enslaving a Yazidi woman and aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide as an ISIL (ISIS) member.
A spokesperson for the court in the western city of Koblenz said the 37-year-old German defendant, identified only as Nadine K, was also found guilty of crimes against humanity and membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
Between December 2014 and March 2019, the defendant was a member of ISIL, traveling to Syria with her husband to join the organisation.
In 2015, the pair relocated to Mosul, Iraq, before returning to Syria.
From April 2016, the pair kept as a slave a Yazidi woman who had been imprisoned by ISIL since 2014.
Nadine K kept watch to prevent the woman, who was 22 at the time, from fleeing and forced her to do housework and observe strict Islamic rituals.
With the knowledge of the defendant, Nadine K’s husband regularly raped and beat the Yazidi woman.
“All of this served the declared purpose of IS (Islamic State/ISIL), to wipe out the Yazidi faith,” prosecutors said at the trial’s opening earlier this year.
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