On Tuesday, the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service requested in an appeal a ten-year prison sentence for a 34-year-old woman from Hengelo and compensation of €30,000.

A member of ISIS, she is accused of having used a Yezidi woman as a slave in Syria. The court of appeal will issue its ruling at a later date.

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Last year, the court sentenced the suspect to ten years in prison for, among other things, membership of ISIS and forcing a Yezidi woman to work as a slave.

The woman traveled to Syria in 2015 with her four-year-old son to join ISIS. She stayed for years in ISIS-held territory in Syria and Iraq.

She married an ISIS fighter and lived in various locations in the so-called caliphate. In a house where the suspect stayed while her husband was away, a Yezidi woman named Z. was kept as a domestic slave.

The suspect forced Z. to perform heavy household work and to care for the suspect’s young son. After the fall of the caliphate in 2019, the suspect spent years in Kurdish detention camps.

“The suspect knowingly put her own child in danger, placing her own interests above those of her child. As a result, her child was exposed to danger and was harmed, even though she had a duty to protect him,” the Dutch prosecutor general said during the hearing.

In the appeal, the prosecution, together with the victim’s lawyers, has pushed for compensation of €30,000 for the Yezidi victim.

During the hearing, the prosecutors emphasized the impact of the case. “It was the suspect who used the victim as a slave, without caring about her fate ... Together with others, the suspect deprived the victim of the most fundamental rights: the right to freedom and the right to human dignity.”

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On August 3, 2014, ISIS attacked the area around Mount Sinjar and committed genocide against the large Yezidi minority, in which Yezidi men and boys who refused to convert to Islam were executed.

Thousands of Yezidi women and girls were taken to other parts of Iraq and Syria and subjected to slavery.

In July 2021, the Parliament of the Netherlands recognized the ISIS massacre of Yezidis in August 2014 as genocide.

To this day, thousands of Yezidis still live in harsh conditions in refugee camps in Kurdistan.