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Iraqi court sentences Azerbaijani Daesh woman to 15 years in jail

An Iraqi court has sentenced an Azerbaijani woman to 15 years in prison for her affiliation to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, in a statement released on Thursday, announced that the Central Criminal Court had issued the verdict against the woman, whose identity was not immediately available.

The statement added that the female Azerbaijani national had illegally traveled with her child and friend to Iraq through Turkey and Syria, and then settled in a house given for free in the northwestern city of Tal Afar, located 63 kilometers west of Mosul – the former de facto capital of Daesh in Iraq.

The unnamed woman worked in a hospital in Tal Afar as a qualified midwife and a nurse, and apparently received a salary of seventy thousand Iraqi dinars ($58.8) per month. The sentence against her was passed in accordance with Article IV of Iraq’s Anti-Terrorism Law.

Back in April, 2018, the same court had sentenced three Azerbaijani women and a female Kyrgyz citizen to death over membership in Daesh.

The court also handed life sentences to two Russian nationals and one woman from France.

According to a report published by Iraq’s Arabic-language al-Mashriq newspaper, more than 1,500 women and children from the families of Daesh militants are currently being held in the Arab country, and the Baghdad government is coordinating with their respective countries to decide their fate.

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