"German Woman's Appeal Denied in Case of Yazidi Slave Girl's Death in Iraq"

A German woman, identified as Jennifer W., has lost her appeal of a 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl, whom she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq, to die of thirst in the sun. The woman was convicted of crimes against humanity through enslavement, one case resulting in death, and membership in a terrorist organization abroad. The court rejected her appeal as "manifestly unfounded," and her former husband, an Iraqi citizen, was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and bodily harm resulting in death and sentenced to life imprisonment.