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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Volume:
37
Issue:
11
Abstract:
On October 25, 2021, a German Court sentenced a German woman turned Islamic State (ISIS) supporter to 10 years of imprisonment for her involvement in the death of a Yazidi girl. This is the first conviction against an Islamic State member involved in a Yazidi persecution. Other nations could follow suit and bring ISIS perpetrators of Yazidi persecution accountable with the application of universal jurisdiction, the doctrine that allows any nation to prosecute crimes against humanity regardless of link between prosecuting country and location of a given crime.