Case: Nadine K. -

Nadine K. and her husband allegedly willingly joined ISIS in Syria in December 2014. Shortly after arrival, Nadine K. and her husband moved to ISIS controlled territory in Iraq where Nadine K.’s husband worked as a doctor for ISIS. Nadine K. and her husband, are said to have accommodated various female ISIS affiliates and were paid for these services by ISIS. In April 2016, Nadine K.’s husband allegedly brought home a Yazidi women whom he was gifted as a slave. Nadine K. is suspected to have forced the Yazidi woman to run the household, and take care of her children. She also allegledly ensured that the Yazidi woman was unable to leave the house and prevented from contacting her family. In summer 2016, Nadine K. left Mosul with her family and moved on to Syria. They allegedly took the Yazidi women with them and moved again several times around Syria. Nadine K.’s husband is suspeceted to have repeatedly raped the Yazidi woman. Nadine K. was allegedly aware of that and facilitated this with her actions. In march 2019, Nadine K., her husband, the two children and the Yazidi woman were arrested by Kurdish forces. Nadine K. refused to be repatriated to Germany in 2020 and only agreed thereto in 2022. She was arrested upon arrival, indicted and in June 2023 found guilty of among others, several crimes against humanity, genocide, and membership in a foreign terrorist organisation. However, the Judges could not find beyond reasonable doubt that the house in which the defendant and her husband lived in was illegally seized by ISIS, defendant was thus acquitted of the war crime of pillaging. The judgement was appealed.