• German IS woman Jennifer Wenisch was found guilty.
• Of being an accessory to murder for her role in the killing of a five-year-old Yazidi girl.
• Which was deemed a crime against humanity.

The top court in Germany has largely overturned a German woman’s conviction for her role in the killing of a five-year-old Yazidi girl.

In 2021, Jennifer Wenisch, an Islamic State member, was sentenced to ten years in prison for her part in the girl’s killing.

The public prosecutor of the nation had contended that this sentence was excessively light.

The girl and her mother were bought as slaves by Wenisch and her husband, an IS warrior.

The girl passed away in August 2015 after spending days shackled in the blazing heat.

Wenisch was found to have stood by while her husband abandoned the girl to die of thirst, which was deemed to be a crime against humanity. She refuted the accusation.

Although a Munich judge determined that her case was less serious, she was found guilty of being an accessory to murder.

The original sentence of nine years for the death of a child brought on by slavery plus two and a half years for belonging to a terrorist organisation, to be served over a ten-year period, will now be reviewed.

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice disputed that her conduct had been less serious.

Taha al-Jumailly, an Iraqi terrorist, is her spouse and currently serving a life sentence.

One of the first IS crimes against the Yazidi minority to go to trial involved this incident, which occurred in the northern Iraqi city of Fallujah.

A particular target of IS violence were the Yazidi, a Kurdish minority from northern Iraq.

The Yazidi people‘s ancient homeland in northern Iraq was invaded by IS terrorists in 2014, and thousands of women and children were taken prisoner and sold as slaves.

Wenisch is accused of having been a member of an IS “anti-vice squad” that was responsible for enforcing stringent Islamic laws in Fallujah and Mosul.

According to the legal doctrine of universal jurisdiction, which permits charges for alleged war crimes, including genocide, which occurred in other nations, she was put on trial in Germany.

Amal Clooney, a human rights attorney based in London, was a member of the legal team defending the mother of the young child.

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