Islamic State militant sentenced to death in Iraq for raping Yazidi girl

An Iraqi Criminal Court in the Baghdad region of Karkh has sentenced a convicted Islamic State militant who used the pseudonym ‘Abu Hamam’ to death by hanging for raping a Yazidi girl when the terrorist group took control of the country’s northern Nineveh province in 2014.
The court did not give details about the convicted individual’s true identity, but what is known is that the vast majority of the members of the terrorist group are Iraqis or Syrians.
“The Yazidi accuser was given to the terrorist by the so-called Islamic State as a reward and spoil of war for his injury, while fighting the Iraqi Security Forces,” a statement by the Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council media center said.
There were about 550,000 Yazidis in Kurdistan and Iraq before the 2014 assault. According to the Yazidi Rescue Office, when ISIS seized most of Nineveh, 360,000 Yazidis escaped and found refuge elsewhere. Most fled to neighbouring Kurdistan, while others settled in the surrounding countries or moved to the West.
Many, however, remained in the war zone, where they subjected by ISIS to horrific atrocities, including the mass execution of men and boys and the systematic rape of women and girls. ISIS militants particularly targeted women and girls and forced thousands into sexual slavery in areas they controlled in Iraq and Syria.