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February 26th, 2018 
Awake Goy 
nsnbc : Iraq’s Central Criminal Court has issued death sentences for 16 Turkish women after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State and aiding terrorists in their attacks. Last week the Court sentenced a German woman to death, while Linda Wenzel, who was 16 when she ran away to Iraq was sentenced to 6 years in prison. The Iraqi government said it is cooperating with other governments to repatriate foreigners with clean hands as soon as possible.
The 16 Turkish women were convicted to death by hanging after “it was proven they belong to the Daesh terrorist group and after they confessed to marrying Daesh elements or providing members of the group with logistical aid or helping them carry out terrorist attacks,” Judge Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, a spokesman of the court, told reporters, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State. The court’s decision can still be appealed, he added.
Thousands of women, including foreign nationals who joined the self-proclaimed Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL, IS, or Daesh), were detained by Iraqi forces as they liberated territories held by the extremists. In October 2017, the Iraqi ambassador to Belgium, Jawad Al-Chlaihawi, put the total number of detained IS militant family members at 14,000. Many of them now face trial.
On Monday, the Iraqi court yet sentenced another Turkish woman to death over membership in the terrorist group while handing down life sentences to 10 more women of various nationalities. In late January, the death sentence was issued to a German woman of Moroccan descent who reportedly became the first foreign woman to be sentenced to death by an Iraqi court.
All foreigners, including women who committed “crimes” against the people of Iraq “directly or through support” of terrorist groups will stand trial in accordance with Iraqi law, government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said earlier this week. He added that foreign nationals proven to have committed no crimes on Iraqi soil would be sent back to their home countries, local media report.
On Monday, an Iraqi court ordered the release and deportation of a French woman who joined Islamic State. Melina Bougedir, 27, was detained last summer as Iraqi troops took over the northern city of Mosul from extremists. She was sentenced to seven months in prison for entering Iraq illegally, but was then immediately released as the court ruled she already served her time during her detention.
The Court, last week, ruled that a German woman of Moroccan descent should incur the death penalty for joining Islamic State. The woman, whose name hasn’t been disclosed, was allegedly guilty of “offering logistic support and helping the terrorist group to carry out criminal acts,” as well as “taking part in attacks against security forces,” the Supreme Judicial Council’s spokesman, Abdul-Sattar Bayrkda told reporters.
The defendant joined ISIS after she travelled from Germany to Syria and further to Iraq, along with her two daughters, who eventually married militants, Bayrkda said. The woman was captured by Iraqi forces last year during the battle for Mosul.
Following Baghdad declaring victory over IS in Mosul in July 2017, the Iraqi military caught a group of female fighters, including four German nationals. At the time, media reports said that two women, one of Moroccan origin and the other Chechen-born, were among those detained. Additionally, a German teenage girl, Linda Wenzel, was arrested after she converted to Islam and went missing for a year.
In October last year, the Iraqi ambassador to Belgium, Jawad Al-Chlaihawi, told local media that nearly 14,000 family members of suspected IS militants were being held near Mosul. At least 100 Europeans would be tried in Iraq, with most of them likely to receive a death sentence, Al-Chlaihawi said.
Photo courtesy Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service, July 2017
A Court has sentenced German teenager Linda Wenzel, dubbed a “jihadi bride”, to six years in prison for her affiliation with Islamic Stat. She was potentially facing the death penalty. Wenzel was given a five-year sentence for being a member of IS and another year for crossing into Iraq illegally, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Sunday, citing judicial sources.
Her hearing at the Palace of Justice in Baghdad was closed off to the public due to her age, but representatives from the German embassy were present at the trial.
Originally from the German town of Pulsnitz, a town near Dresden in eastern Germany, Wenzel converted to Islam in 2016. After meeting extremists online at the age of 15, Wenzel ran away from home and made her way into Iraq through Turkey and Syria.
There, she reportedly married a Chechen fighter, who was later killed. After being captured in Mosul last year, Wenzel made headlines across the world when footage emerged that showed her terrified and in tears as she was dragged along by Iraqi troops. But the teenager was just one of many women from Europe and elsewhere who traveled to the Middle East to become jihadi brides.
Since her capture, Wenzel has expressed regret for her actions. “I want to go home to my family,” she told reporters. “I want to get out of the war, away from the weapons, the noise.” “I don’t know how I came up with such a dumb idea. I’ve completely ruined my life.”
Iraq is arranging with world countries for the handover of foreigners who had been proved innocent of criminal activity in the country, a government spokesman was quoted saying on Wednesday.
Saad al-Hadithi, a spokesperson of the media office of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, said, as quoted by Alhurra, that “Iraq will coordinate with the countries of detainees who had been proved innocent of crimes, including murders and bombings, in Iraq, to hand them over”.
According to Hadithi, all foreign terrorists, including women, who had committed violations against the Iraqi people, either directly or through the provision of assistance, will be tried based on Iraqi laws”.
Iraq is holding hundreds of foreign wives and children of Islamic State militants who were captured as Iraqi forces gradually seized back territories held by the extremist group since 2014. The government declared victory over IS last December.
Last Monday, Iraq’s judiciary ordered the extradition of a French woman who had been arrested, along with her four children, in the city of Mosul, the birthplace of Islamic State’s self-styled “caliphate” in Iraq. She was convicted of illegal entry to the country. She was handed a seven-month jail term and released upon ending her stretch.
F/AK – nsnbc 26.02.2018
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