Earlier this week the Higher Regional Court in Munich, Germany sentenced the German national Jennifer W., wife of an ISIS fighter to 10 years for aiding and abetting in attempted murder, crimes against humanity, war crimes, as well as participating in a foreign terrorist organisation. The accused was found to have stood by and failed to intervene when her husband chained a young Yazidi girl of just 5 years old, outside as punishment for wetting her bed. The child, unsheltered in the blazing sun, died of thirst. Both she and her mother had been purchased by the accused's husband as slaves.

Farida Global Organization and the Yazidi Legal Network commends the mother for her brave act delivering evidence before the court, which illustrates some of the grave violations many other Yazidi woman and girls have suffered and continue to suffer as a result of the 2014 ISIS attacks.

This landmark case is an important step towards justice for Yazidis. Yazidi Legal Network and Farida Global Organization hopes it will mark the beginning of a determined effort on the part of domestic accountability mechanisms in Europe and elsewhere to deal with returning foreign terrorist fighters (members of ISIS) not only with charges of membership in a terrorist organization but also with core international crimes.