Last Updated on: 25th October 2021, 04:29 pm
Who is Jennifer Wenisch? Biography, Wiki
Jennifer Wenisch, a German Muslim who joined the Islamic State in Iraq, was sentenced to ten years in prison in Munich for killing a Yazidi girl she and her husband bought as a slave.
Little was seen as an accomplice in a war crime when her husband left the chained five-year-old to die of thirst outside under the scorching sun.
Jennifer Wenisch’s Age
Her current age is 30 years.
Jennifer Wenisch Jailed For The Murder Of Yazdi Girls In Iraq
The man von Wenisch, an Iraqi jihadist, is on trial in Frankfurt.
The girl died in Fallujah in 2015.
Wenisch, 30, has denied the allegations. Her lawyers said the girl’s mother, Nora, was not a reliable witness, arguing that there was no evidence the girl died. Nora and the girl had been enslaved by IS along with many other Yazidis.
The verdict on her husband Taha al-Jumailly is expected next month.
This is one of the first cases of IS crimes against the Yazidi community to go to trial. The Yazidis, a Kurdish group in northern Iraq, have been a particular target of Islamic State brutality.
What Was The Trial?
Few of them have been accused in Germany of the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows the prosecution of alleged war crimes, including genocide, abroad.
She was arrested in Turkey in 2016 and then deported to Germany, reports the AFP news agency.
Little is said to have served in an ISIS “vice command”, which enforced strict Islamic rules in Mosul and Fallujah.
London-based human rights lawyer Amal Clooney was part of the legal team representing the girl’s mother.
In 2014, IS fighters broke into the ancient hearts of the Yazidi people in northern Iraq and captured thousands of women and children as slaves.
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