A man is accused of genocide and murdering a child belonging to the Yazidi minority who he held as a slave.
A man believed to have belonged to the Islamic State group goes on trial in Germany on Friday accused of genocide and murdering a child belonging to the Yazidi minority who he held as a slave.
A Kurdish-speaking group hailing from northern Iraq, the Yazidis were specifically targeted and oppressed by the jihadists beginning in 2015. He then took them to Fallujah, where they were seriously maltreated and at times deprived of food, the prosecutors allege. Al-J. was arrested in Greece in May 2019, before being extradited to Germany in October, where he has since been held in pre-trial custody.Both Lebanese-British lawyer Amal Clooney and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad -- herself a survivor of IS sexual slavery and a 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner -- have represented the mother of the young girl at Wenisch's Munich trial.But proving before a court that genocide has taken place is difficult.
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