An Iraqi member of the extremist group Islamic State (EI) was sentenced on Tuesday (30) to life in prison for “genocide” against the Yazidi minority by a German court, the first sentence of its kind in the world
The judges of the Frankfurt Regional Court found Taha al Jumailly “guilty of genocide, of a crime against humanity that caused death, of war crime and complicity in war crimes”.
This is the first time in the world that a court has judged the violence suffered by the Yazidis as “genocide, although UN investigators have already used the term.
The reading of the verdict was interrupted because the accused fainted shortly after hearing the sentence.
Iraqi Taha al Jumailly, who joined ISIS in 2013, was found guilty of letting a 5-year-old Yazidi girl die of thirst during the summer of 2015 in Fallujah (70 kilometers from Baghdad). He had “bought the child into a slave,” according to the prosecution.
Al Jumailly’s ex-wife, Jennifer Wenisch, 30, was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison for “a crime against humanity that caused the girl’s death.”
The child’s mother, Nora B., explained during the process the ordeal suffered by her daughter, “tied to a window” outside the house, in temperatures that could reach 50 °C, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The Yazidi ethnic and religious minority was particularly persecuted by ISIS, which enslaved women and killed men after the August 2014 invasion of the Sinyar Mountains in northwestern Iraq.
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