A Munich court convicted Jennifer Wenisch, a German citizen married to an Islamic State fighter, for “crimes against humanity and attempted war crimes” in the aiding and abetting of the murder of a 5-year-old Yazidi girl, sentencing her to 10 years in prison.
The conviction is believed to be the first in the world related to the Islamic State’s persecution of the Yazidi community. The case is being tried in Germany because its legal system incorporates parts of the principle of universal jurisdiction. German authorities have been investigating war crimes against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria for years as part of “structural investigations.”
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