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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 10 april 2019

German on trial over death of 5-year-old Yazidi slave girl

By DAVID RISING said in a statement it was
Associated Press hoped the case would
BERLIN (AP) — A German encourage more prosecu-
convert to Islam went on tions of returning Islamic
trial Tuesday on charges State members for interna-
that, as a member of the tional crimes.
extremist Islamic State The United Nations has
group in Iraq, she allowed called the IS assault on the
a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she Yazidis' ancestral home-
and her husband kept as land in northern Iraq in 2014
a slave to die of thirst in the a genocide, saying the Ya-
hot sun. zidis' "400,000-strong com-
The 27-year-old, identi- munity had all been dis-
fied only as Jennifer W. in placed, captured or killed."
line with privacy rules, is Of the thousands captured
charged with murder, a by IS, boys were forced
war crime and member- to fight for the extremists,
ship in a terrorist organiza- men were executed if they
tion, and could face life in didn't convert to Islam —
prison if convicted in Mu- and often executed in any
nich state court. case — and women and
Pleas are not entered in the girls were sold into slavery.
German system, and as her "Yazidi victims of genocide
trial opened her attorney 27-year-old German Jennifer W. covers her face as she arrives at a court in Munich, southern have waited far too long
Seda Basay-Yildiz said the Germany, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. for their day in court," Cloo-
defendant had no state- Associated Press ney said.
ment to make to the court "I hope that this will be the
about the charges against called as a witness, and clude Amal Clooney, who Neither was in court for the first of many trials that will
her, the dpa news agency is also a co-plaintiff in the specializes in international opening hearing before finally bring ISIS to justice
reported. case as allowed under Ger- law and human rights cas- the trial was adjourned for in line with international
The girl's mother is to be man law. Her lawyers in- es. three weeks, but Clooney law."q

Group: Migrant rescue ship low on supplies in Mediterranean

By COLLEEN BARRY situations to increase if tries to take in the migrants,
Associated Press these people are not al- as the nearest countries,
MILAN (AP) — Maltese lowed to move quickly to Malta and Italy, have re-
armed forces on Tuesday a safe place," said Jan Rib- fused to allow port access
evacuated for medical beck, operations manager to any NGO rescue ship.
reasons one of 64 migrants aboard the group's rescue Sea-Eye spokesman
aboard a German humani- vessel Alan Kurdi. Dominik Reisinger said the
tarian rescue ship that has Sea-Eye said it has informed "political question about
been at sea for six days as Malta, the nearest country the distribution of the res-
Europe haggles over where with a port, that drinking cued ... overshadows the
to provide safe port. water and food is running human rights" of those on
The woman was suffering low for the rescued people, board.
from dizziness, but officials now including 11 women, a Many have told their rescu-
from the German humani- child and an infant. ers of abuse and mistreat-
tarian group Sea-Eye said The European Union, mean- ment suffered in Libya, Sea-
that an accurate diagnosis while, said it had triggered Eye said in a statement, in- This April 3, 2019 photo shows the Sea-Eye rescue ship in the
wasn't possible on board. talks with member states to cluding sexual assault and waters off Libya.
"We have to expect such identify a port and coun- blackmail.q Asociated Press