In Germany, IS returnee Jennifer W. has been sentenced to ten years in prison. The Munich court convicted her of membership of a terrorist organization, complicity in murder, attempted war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The 30-year-old woman from Lohne was accused, among other things, of watching her then husband – who is on trial in Frankfurt am Main – killed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl. He had tied her up in a courtyard, where he let the toddler die of thirst in the blazing sun.
W. previously stated that she traveled to Iraq in 2014 for ideological reasons, to marry an IS fighter. According to her, the girl was killed a year later by her husband, as punishment because W. had wet the child to cool down. In their own words, the German could do nothing about it.
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The case against Jennifer W. was big news in April 2019. Yezidi organization Yazda called the Munich trial the first lawsuit for crimes against the religious minority by a member of the terrorist group IS. Also Nadia Murad |, a well-known Yazidi activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, emphasized the importance of the case.
During the trial, W. previously confessed, among other things, that she had been a member of the Hisbah, the feared sharia police of IS, in Iraq. The woman from Lower Saxony, who grew up in a Protestant family and converted to Islam in 2013, said she took part in armed patrols in Fallujah and Mosul to check women for morality.
W. herself emphasized in court today that there were still doubts about the exact crimes she committed, but that the court did not take this into account in the judgment. She believes that this conviction sets an example and says that she apparently has to pay for all the injustice that has been committed under the terrorist movement IS.
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