Life in prison for Taha Al-J, a 29-year-old of Iraqi origin, who was put on trial in Germany on charges of causing the death of a 5-year-old Yazidi girl, bought as a slave, by dehydration, keeping her chained under the sun "in punishment " for hours.
The facts date back to 2015, when the man - an ISIS militant - was in Fallujah in Iraq, together with his ex-wife Jennifer W., the German foreing fighter, already convicted of the same terrible accusation, last September, to ten years in prison from the Munich court . A lower sentence for the woman, because the deadly torture was carried out by the 29-year-old, while she was accused of having stood by and did nothing to save the little girl.
The new sentence was handed down in Frankfurt. The jury found the 29-year-old was found guilty of genocide and war crimes.
The president of the judges, Christoph Koller, in issuing the verdict, stressed that this is the first sentence in the world condemning the persecution and violence perpetrated by Daesh against the Yazidi minority.
(Unioneonline / lf)
