Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Yazidi genocide: landmark guilty verdict for IS jihadi could transform how atrocities are brought to justice

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Chamu Kuppuswamy, Senior lecturer and interdisciplinary researcher, School of Law, University of Hertfordshire

The genocide verdict brought recently by a German court against an Iraqi member of Islamic State for crimes including the murder of a five-year-old Yazidi girl is a landmark decision which will clear the way for similar prosecutions. That this verdict was even possible was thanks to a detailed (and remarkably speedy) report in 2016 which established that violence against the Yazidi community in northwest Iraq had amounted…

Lire l'article complet