A German woman was convicted yesterday wednesday in Koblenz to nine years in prison for holding captive and using as a slave a woman belonging to the Yazidi minorityas well as for complicity in genocide.

This 37-year-old woman, referred to in court documents as Nadine K. and it is former member of the Islamic State, he was also convicted of complicity in war crimes and membership in a terrorist organizationaccording to a representative of the Koblenz court.

Nadine K. belonged to IS from December 2014 to March 2019 and went to Syria to join the organization with her husband. In 2015 the couple settled in Mosul, Iraq before returning to Syria.

Since 2016, the couple kept this woman as a slave which belonged to Yazidi minority and had been captured by IS in 2014.

Nadine K. constantly watched the woman, who was 22 at the time, he forced her to do housework and observe Islamic customs. Alongside she encouraged her husband to beat and rape her. “All this served the stated goal of IS: to eliminate the faith of the Yazidis,” the prosecutor emphasized.

The German woman was arrested in March 2022 as soon as she returned to her home country.

A German court was the first to recognize, in November 2021, the crimes against the Yazidi minority as “genocide”, a “historic” decision, as it was described by human rights advocates.

IS jihadists consider the Yazidis and their monotheistic religion “heretics”. Thousands of men of the Kurdish-speaking minority were massacredafter IS captured in August 2014 Mount Sinjar, a historical Yazidi stronghold in northern Iraq. The women were abducted and sold as “wives” to the jihadists or made into sex slaves. The children were recruited by the IK.

Even today, bodies are exhumed from mass graves in Sinjarwhile more than 2,700 people are missingaccording to the International Organization for Migration.