A German court has jailed a woman for more than nine years for enslaving a Yazidi woman, as well as aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide as a member of ISIL (ISIS).
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, a spokesperson for the court in the western city of Koblenz said.
The defendant was a member of ISIL between December 2014 and March 2019, travelling to Syria to join the group with her husband.
In 2015, the couple moved to Mosul in Iraq, then back to Syria. From April 2016, the pair kept as a slave a Yazidi woman who had been imprisoned by ISIL since 2014.
The defendant returned to Germany last year in one of several repatriation operations and was arrested on arrival.
After seizing large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, ISIL killed more than 1,200 Yazidis, enslaved 7,000 Yazidi women and girls, and displaced most of the 550,000-strong community from their homes in northern Iraq.
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