A German woman who joined the Islamic State jihadist group goes on trial Tuesday accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old"slave" girl die of thirst.
According to news weekly Der Spiegel, the defendant, herself the mother of a small girl, had incriminated herself while talking at length to an undercover FBI informant in a bugged car. The trial will start at 0730 GMT under tight security in a Munich court that deals with state security and terrorism cases, with hearings initially scheduled until September 30.Jennifer W., who reportedly left school after the eighth grade and converted to Islam in 2013, left Germany in August 2014 and travelled via Turkey and Syria to Iraq where she joined the IS.
In January 2016, months after the Yazidi child's death, Jennifer W. visited the German embassy in Ankara to apply for new identity papers.
The photo above is not of human rights lawyer Amal Clooney. The photo is of Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad.
. Please stop with misleading information. Life in jail in Germany does not mean life. You will maybe spend 5-15 years in a comfortable jail with access to internet and phone and visitors. Germany and all of Europe is very soft on criminals.
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