Munich court sentences Iraqi man to life and former partner to 9.5 years over enslavement of Yazidi girls
How left and right are reading this
- Both agree
- A long Munich trial turned the enslavement and abuse of two Yazidi girls into concrete convictions for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
- They split on
- Whether the story is about naming Yazidi victims' suffering under international law, or about a state's capacity to punish Islamic State-linked barbarism through its own courts.
The Facts
- The Oberlandesgericht München convicted an Iraqi man and his former partner over crimes against two Yazidi girls in Iraq.
- The man was sentenced to life in prison, while the woman received a juvenile sentence of nine and a half years.
- The convictions included genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- The court found that the defendants bought and held two Yazidi girls as slaves in Iraq and exploited them.
- Multiple reports say the man sexually abused the girls, and the case also included charges related to sexual abuse of children.
- German outlets reported that the defendants were found to have been members of or linked to Islamic State.
- The case is part of Germany's effort to prosecute crimes committed by Islamic State against Yazidis under international law, and several reports note that Germany recognizes those crimes as genocide.
- The trial lasted more than a year before the Munich court delivered its verdict.
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Context
Why was the woman given a juvenile sentence?
Reports say she received a juvenile sentence because she was not yet an adult under criminal law at the beginning of the offenses tagesschau.de Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Why was genocide among the charges in this case?
Several reports say German authorities and the court treated the crimes against Yazidis by Islamic State as part of a genocide against the Yazidi religious community, and the presiding judge said the case was also about enforcing international law N-tv Focus Deutsche Welle.
What did the court say happened to the victims?
According to multiple reports, the court found that the two Yazidi girls were bought as slaves in Iraq, exploited, and abused over time; several outlets also reported sexual abuse by the man nachrichten.at WEB.DE Frankfurter Allgeme….
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