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02-26-2018, 07:55 AM
Iraqi court sentences 15 Turkish women including four with young children to death for belonging to ISIS
Four of the women, who dressed in black, were accompanied by young children
Another Turkish woman accused of joining jihadist group was given life sentence
The women were aged between 20 and 50 and said they entered Iraq illegally
By Iain Burns For Mailonline and Afp
PUBLISHED: 17:42 GMT, 25 February 2018 |
One of them told the judge she had taken part in fighting against Iraqi forces alongside the jihadists, he said.
Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdel Sattar Bayraqdar told AFP the women had a month to appeal.
Last week, another group of foreign widows of ISIS fighters told a court hearing attended they had been fooled or threatened by their husbands to head to Iraq.
Iraq, which has detained at least 560 women, as well as 600 children, identified as jihadist or relatives of suspected ISIS fighters, is wasting no time in putting them on trial.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/02/25/17/050C4919000003E8-5433137-image-a-2_1519580152084.jpg
Baghdad declared military victory over ISIS in December, after having expelled the jihadists from all urban centres they had held in northern and western Iraq since 2014. Pictured: Iraqi police officers celebrating in Mosul after the city was recaptured in July 2017
Experts estimate that 20,000 people are being held in jail in Iraq for alleged membership of ISIS. There is no official figure.
Separately, authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said in early February they had detained some 4,000 suspected ISIS members, including foreigners.
Iraq's anti-terrorism law empowers courts to convict people who are believed to have helped ISIS even if they are not accused of carrying out attacks.
It also allows for the death penalty to be issued against anyone - including non-combatants - found guilty of belonging to ISIS.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5433137/Iraqi-court-sentences-15-Turkish-women-death.html#ixzz58Cd5SZNI
Four of the women, who dressed in black, were accompanied by young children
Another Turkish woman accused of joining jihadist group was given life sentence
The women were aged between 20 and 50 and said they entered Iraq illegally
By Iain Burns For Mailonline and Afp
PUBLISHED: 17:42 GMT, 25 February 2018 |
One of them told the judge she had taken part in fighting against Iraqi forces alongside the jihadists, he said.
Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdel Sattar Bayraqdar told AFP the women had a month to appeal.
Last week, another group of foreign widows of ISIS fighters told a court hearing attended they had been fooled or threatened by their husbands to head to Iraq.
Iraq, which has detained at least 560 women, as well as 600 children, identified as jihadist or relatives of suspected ISIS fighters, is wasting no time in putting them on trial.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/02/25/17/050C4919000003E8-5433137-image-a-2_1519580152084.jpg
Baghdad declared military victory over ISIS in December, after having expelled the jihadists from all urban centres they had held in northern and western Iraq since 2014. Pictured: Iraqi police officers celebrating in Mosul after the city was recaptured in July 2017
Experts estimate that 20,000 people are being held in jail in Iraq for alleged membership of ISIS. There is no official figure.
Separately, authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said in early February they had detained some 4,000 suspected ISIS members, including foreigners.
Iraq's anti-terrorism law empowers courts to convict people who are believed to have helped ISIS even if they are not accused of carrying out attacks.
It also allows for the death penalty to be issued against anyone - including non-combatants - found guilty of belonging to ISIS.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5433137/Iraqi-court-sentences-15-Turkish-women-death.html#ixzz58Cd5SZNI