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German woman loses appeal of 14-year sentence for letting Yazidi slave girl die in Iraq

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst. The defendant, a German convert to Islam, was convicted in October 2021 of two counts of crimes against humanity through enslavement and other crimes. She was initially given a 10-year sentence, which was overturned on the grounds that judges had overlooked aggravating circumstances.

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