Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 26 Feb 2018, 06:56 am Print
Baghdad: A court in Iraq has handed capital punishment to 16 Turkish women after it was established that they had links with the so-called Islamic State.
Reading out the sentence, Judge Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar said that he issued it "after it was proven they belong to the Daesh terrorist group and after they confessed to marrying Daesh elements or providing members of the group with logistical aid or helping them carry out terrorist attacks."
The judge added that all the verdicts were subject to appeal.
Daesh is the Arabic name for the ISIS.
Presently Iraq is conducting trials of hundred of foreign women who have been nabbed for allegedly helping ISIS militants.
Last month, a German women was sentenced to death for ties with the ISIS and another Russian faced a similar fate in 2017.
The Iraqi foreign ministry said on Thursday that it has so far handed over to Russia four women and 27 children who are suspected to have links with ISIS.
According to reports, ISIS, which was formed in 2014, is slowly receding as strongholds of the outfit have been either been captured or destroyed by forces opposing it
Image: UN Photo
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