(Deutsche Welle) German prosecutors said on Friday they had indicted an Iraqi man for allegedly leaving a Yazidi girl to die of thirst.
He and his wife kept the 5-year-old as a slave in Iraq and his spouse, a German convert to Islam, is already on trial over the case.
The Iraqi male, who goes under the name of Taha A.-J. due to German privacy laws, faces charges of murder, membership of a terrorist organization, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and human trafficking.
Members of the Islamic State
Prosecutors allege that A.-J., who joined the Islamic State (IS) in 2013, bought the Yazidi girl and her mother as “slaves” and held them captive while living with Jennifer W. in then-IS-occupied Mosul, Iraq, in 2015.
