Iraqi Court Orders Death by Hanging for Wife of Late Islamic State Chief Baghdadi
An Iraqi court has handed down a death sentence to one of the wives of the late Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for her part in capturing women of the Yazidi community who were then brutalized and killed by IS members.
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Under Abu Bakr’s leadership, thousands of women and girls were subject to human trafficking, sexual abuse, and murder, sufficient for the United Nations to declare an IS genocide against the Yazidis, a religious minority.
In 2019, the United States military located and killed Baghdadi. Today, the group has been reduced to spot attacks, its plans for the creation of a caliphate unfulfilled. The defendant was charged with detaining women in her home, who were then victimized by IS. She was found guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide against the Yazidi people,” according to Reuters.
