BAGHDAD—An Iraqi court issued a death sentence against one of the wives of the late brutal ISIS terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, alleging that she was complicit in crimes committed against Yazidi women captured by the terrorist group, the country’s judiciary announced Wednesday.
The ruling comes weeks before the 10-year mark since ISIS launched a series of attacks against the Yazidi religious minority in the northern Iraqi region of Sinjar in early August 2014, killing and capturing thousands—including women and girls who were subjected to human trafficking and sexual abuse. The United Nations said the campaign against the Yazidis amounted to genocide.
