Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 21-01-2018
An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced a German woman of Moroccan origin to death for her membership of ISIS.
Declining to identify her, a spokesperson says the German national was captured by Iraqi forces during the battle for Mosul last year.
Reuters reports she is the first foreign woman to be sentenced to death in Iraq for joining the militant group.
Spokesman for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council in Baghdad, Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, says the woman can appeal the sentence.
“She confessed that she travelled with her two daughters from Germany to Syria and then joined Daesh (Arabic acronym for ISIS) in Iraq.”
The woman was convicted of participating in attacks on Iraqi security forces and offering the militant group logistical support.
A German foreign ministry spokeswoman declined to comment.
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