(Courthouse News) A Dutch court has sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for crimes against humanity for keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave in Syria, in the first case against the minority group in the Netherlands.
Hasna Aarab was found guilty of slavery as well as joining a terrorist organization and endangering the welfare of a child by The Hague District Court, two years after she was repatriated to the Netherlands from a refugee camp.
“Thousands of Yazidi women and girls were taken to other parts of Iraq and Syria and subjected to slavery. Due to the scale and systematic nature of this, the court labels the attack on the Yazidi and the enslavement of Yazidi women as a crime against humanity,” the court said in a statement.
