ISIS member sentenced to death for raping Yazidi girl

An Iraqi court sentenced to death by hanging a member of the terrorist group, ISIS, for raping a Yazidi girl. The Iraqi Higher Judicial Council media center said in a statement that Karakh Criminal Court issued the death sentence by hanging against Abu Hamam as his alias, for multiple killings, including the the rape of a girl from the Yazidi religious minority when ISIS took control over most of Ninaveh province, north of the capital, Baghdad. The plaintiff said ISIS offered her as a gift to Kasabia, as reward for his injury in one of the battles with the Iraqi security forces. Recalling, that on August 3, 2014, armed members of ISIS rolled into the Sinjar mountain region and the neighboring towns and villages. They killed men and women, young, elderly and children with mass executions including slaughter and shooting and buried them in mass graves that are still being discovered. Girls and women were captured and taken as slaves and were exposed to horrendous forms of torture, violence, and rape without excluding child girls. (Al Diyar, March 3, 2020)