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Last update: 2 May 2025Case No:3 St 2/22 - 1st Inst. Verdict – Final
Jalda A., a German national, travelled to Syria through Turkey in April 2014 to join ISIS. Upon arrival, she married an ISIS fighter moving into at least three estates in Tal Abyad and Raqqa after the rightful residents to flee from ISIS. Throughout her time in Syria, Jalda A. enabled her husband to fight for ISIS by running the household and raising their son, according to ISIS ideology. After her first husband died in April 2015, Jalda A. remarried twice. While living with her third husband in Mayadin, she abused an enslaved Yazidi woman who was also regularly raped by Jalda A.’s husband. At the end of 2017, Jalda A. was captured by Kurdish forces in Syria. She was arrested upon arrival in Germany following her repatriation on 7 October 2021. A year later, she was convicted by a German court of crimes against humanity (including enslavement, torture, and rape), war crimes (including torture, rape, and pillaging), genocide, and membership in a foreign terrorist organisation. She was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months imprisonment.
1 count of crimes against humanity of persecution; 1 count of crimes against humanity of enslavement; 1 count of crimes against humanity of severe deprivation of liberty; 1 count of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity of rape; 1 count of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity of torture; 1 count of aiding and abetting war crime of torture; 1 count of aiding and abetting war crime of rape; 3 counts of war crime of pillaging; 1 count of aiding and abetting genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm
3 counts of membership in a terrorist organisation
1 count of aiding and abetting rape; 1 count of causing bodily harm; 1 count of causing severe bodily harm; 1 count of exploitation involving deprivation of liberty;1 count of deprivation of liberty
1st Instance:
1 count of crimes against humanity of persecution; 1 count of crimes against humanity of enslavement; 1 count of crimes against humanity of severe deprivation of liberty; 1 count of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity of rape; 1 count of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity of torture; 1 count of aiding and abetting war crime of torture; 1 count of aiding and abetting war crimes of rape; 1 count of war crime of pillaging; 1 count of aiding and abetting genocide of causing serious bodily or mental harm
3 counts of membership in a foreign terrorist organisation
1 count of causing bodily harm; 1 count of causing severe bodily harm
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Case status: 1st Inst. Verdict – Final
Verdict status: Partial Acquittal
Affiliated group: ISIS
Travelled to conflict zone: Yes
Special procedure: N/A
Ground of jurisdiction: Active Personality
Indictment – Press Release
1st Instance Verdict – On File
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