Asma Mohammed: Widow of ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Sentenced to Death by Baghdad Court [Video]

An Iraqi court has sentenced Asma Mohammed, the widow of former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to death. The court announced on Wednesday that Mohammed was charged with detaining Yazidi women and keeping them as sex slaves at her home. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the notorious ISIS leader, was killed in a US military operation in northwestern Syria in 2019.

Mohammed, was subsequently arrested in Turkey in the same year, as per judicial sources. According to state media, quoting a statement from the Supreme Judicial Council, “The terrorist held Yazidi women captive in her residence, who were abducted by ISIS terrorist groups in the Sinjar district of western Nineveh province.”

Death Sentence for Keeping Sex Slaves

Iraq declared that they had secured “the repatriation of the family” for al-Baghdadi as she and her children returned to the Middle East. Anyone found guilty of helping or concealing a terror suspect faces life in prison under Iraqi counterterrorism rules.

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