AN IRAQI court has sentenced the widow of a former Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death.
Asma Mohammed was charged with detaining Yazidi women and keeping them as sex slaves at her home, the court announced on Wednesday.
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State media, citing a Supreme Judicial Council statement said: “The terrorist enslaved Yazidi women in her home, and they were kidnapped by ISIS terrorist gangs in Sinjar district in western Nineveh province.”
Baghdadi was killed by US troops in 2019 in a major operation in northwestern Syria.
His wife Asma was then later detained in Turkey, say judicial sources.
Iraq announced they had secured “the repatriation of the family” of Baghdadi in 2018 as they made her return to the Middle East along with her children.
Under Iraqi Counter-Terrorism laws anyone found guilty of assisting or hiding a terror suspect is given life imprisonment.
Asma spoke with the BBC after she was returned to Iraq this year as she described herself as a “victim who tried to escape from her husband”.
She would also deny being involved in any of ISIS’s brutal regime.
Courts in Iraq have given out hundreds of death sentences and sentenced even more to life behind bars in the last decade for those involved with ISIS.
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