A trial is underway against a 27-year-old German convert to Islam who is accused of allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl to die of thirst in the scorching heat in Iraq.
A trial is now underway in Munich against a 27-year-old German convert to Islam who is accused of allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl to die of thirst in the scorching heat in Iraq.
Jennifer W. and her husband are also accused of enslaving the young girl in ISIS-held territory in Iraq. The start of the case is a landmark for Yazda, a global Yazidi non-governmental organization that helped identify and locate the girl’s mother. The Yazidi people are an Iraqi ethnic and religious minority who were heavily targeted by the Islamic State. The United Nations called the ISIS assault on the Yazidi’s ancestral homeland in 2014 a genocide, noting that of the thousands captured, men and boys were either forced to fight or executed if they did not convert, according toput out by federal prosecutors, Jennifer W.
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