Amal wins the first case brought to trial against ISIS for a Yazidi girl

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[size=34]Amal Clooney ensures justice for Yazidi girl, 14, raped while an ISIS slave, with successful prosecution of jihadi bride who oversaw victim's abuse[/size]

• Clooney represented one of three victims in trial against ISIS bride in Dusseldorf
  
  
• Her client was 1 of 7 Yazidi girls enslaved by defendant named only as Sarah O.
  
  
• Sarah O., 23, who holds Algerian nationality, married ISIS fighter in Syria in 2013
  
  
• She beat the Yazidi slaves and helped to 'prepare them' for rape by her husband
  
  

By ROSS IBBETSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:56 EDT, 21 June 2021 | UPDATED: 18:05 EDT, 21 June 2021

   

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Amal Clooney has secured justice for a Yazidi woman who was raped from the age of 14 after being enslaved by ISIS in Syria.
Clooney was representing the woman as one of three victims of an ISIS bride named only as Sarah O, who was jailed for six-and-a-half years in Dusseldorf on Wednesday.
The 23-year-old, who holds Algerian nationality, travelled to Syria as a teenager in 2013 where she married a German-Turkish national named only as Ismail S., who remains at large.

From 2015, the couple started enslaving Yazidi women and girls who were kidnapped by marauding ISIS fighters and sold throughout the 'caliphate.'
The Yazidi ethnic group, who are mostly based in Iraq, faced genocidal persecution by Islamic State which claims they are a race of 'devil worshippers.' 
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Amal Clooney is pictured at the United Nations Security Council during a meeting about sexual violence in conflict in New York in April, 2019
Over two years, Sarah O. and Ismail S. enslaved seven Yazidi women, some of whom were sold onto others, while another, a 14-year-old girl, died in captivity.
Sarah O. beat the prisoners and helped her husband sexually abuse at least two of the victims, helping to 'prepare them' for rape.
She also forced the Yazidis to carry out slave labour at her house.
The couple were arrested in Turkey in February 2018. After seven months in custody, Sarah O. was deported to Germany and her trial began in October 2019.
The proceedings were closed to the public because she was a teenager when some of the events took place. In accordance with German law, her full name has not been released either.


The victim represented by Clooney, along with her German colleagues, Natalie von Wistinghausen and Sonka Mehner, was present in Dusseldorf on Wednesday when judges announced the verdict.
Following the judgment, the victim said: 'No conviction can make up for our suffering, but I am immensely grateful to the German Federal Prosecutors and the German court for investigating and shedding light on the crimes committed against the Yazidis and I hope that many more countries will follow this good example.' 
Sarah O. was convicted of membership in a foreign terrorist organisation, assault, deprivation of liberty, aiding and abetting rape, enslavement and religious and gender-based persecution as crimes against humanity. 
Clooney's German colleague Sonka Mehner said: 'Thanks to the victims, the full extent of the defendant's criminal conduct could be established.' 
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George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney attend the 'Money Monster' premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival in 2016
The other German attorney representing the Yazidi woman, Natalie von Wistinghausen, added that 'for the first time ever, a court handed down a conviction for religious and gender-based persecution and this recognition is of utmost importance for our client and for all Yazidi women, for their religious community as a whole, as well as for other victims of gender-based violence.'
Clooney, the 43-year-old wife of Hollywood actor George, is a barrister who specialises in international criminal and human rights law.
She was called to the London Bar in 2010 after being called in New York in 2002.
Fluent in French and Arabic, she has worked in The Hague including at the International Court of Justice.
In addition to her legal work, she served as a senior adviser to Kofi Annan when he was the UN's Envoy on Syria.

It is great for the victim's , and amal must be so happy .

Yes, it's brilliant isn't it?

And the comments in the Fail are truly amazing and supportive!

It's a great beginning. I hope there are more victories to come. I'm curious why the trial was held in Germany since neither the victims nor the accused were German.

Lizzy,

I just read about it on German newssites. 
Sarah O (full names aren't mentioned in Germany unless it's a person who's in the public eye anyway) actually holds both, Algerian and German nationality. She was born and raised in Germany and left for ISIS when she was just 15.
Since she was accused and arrested after her return to Germany, it's possible to have the trial here as well (esp when there's no chance for a trial in Syria).

By the way: Don't ask me why a fifteen year old girl leaves her family and friends, school and everything she knows to live in a war-torn country and to fight for a different life for the people living there - which is not the country her parents came from so there seem to be no roots in the Middle East.
Ladt year, I saw a docu about another young girl who left her home in Germany (actually not far from where I live) to fight for ISIS in Syria. She had no  Muslim background, had never had any cobtacts with anybody from the Middle East. She married an ISIS fighter and had two kids before she turned 18. Since she kept her mobile phone, her father got messages from her every once in a while and went through hell. His daughter had slaves and sbused them, and the ndxt minute dhe was just a normal teenager who wanted to talk about new hits. She's in prison as well, and her father lost everything he had to get her out of Syria when she begged for help.

I've no idea what they think: going on an adventure trip?

Carol - Thanks for the information. Having the trial in Germany makes sense if she had dual citizenship. As far as why anyone would leave their life behind to go off with a terrorist...I have no idea. Most likely they made contact through social media and were convinced that it would be exciting to run off with these men. Who knows? Maybe they thought they were in love. The saddest part, to me, is that most of these "girls" have had children who will suffer the consequences of their mother's actions.