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An Iraqi court has sentenced an Azerbaijani woman to 15 years in prison for her affiliation to the Daesh terrorist group.
The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, in a statement released on Thursday, announced that the Central Criminal Court had issued the verdict against the woman, whose identity was not immediately available.
The statement added that the female Azerbaijani national had illegally traveled with her child and friend to Iraq through Turkey and Syria, and then settled in a house given for free in the northwestern city of Tal Afar, located 63 kilometers west of Mosul – the former de facto capital of Daesh in Iraq.
The unnamed woman worked in a hospital in Tal Afar as a qualified midwife and a nurse and apparently received a salary of seventy thousand Iraqi dinars ($58.8) per month. The sentence against her was passed in accordance with Article IV of Iraq’s Anti-Terrorism Law.
Back in April 2018, the same court had sentenced three Azerbaijani women and a female Kyrgyz citizen to death over membership in Daesh.
The court also handed life sentences to two Russian nationals and one woman from France.
Iraq declared the end of military operations against Daesh in the country on December 9, 2017. On July 10 that year, former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi had formally declared victory over Daesh in Mosul.
In the run-up to Mosul’s liberation, Iraqi army soldiers and voluntary Hashd al-Sha’abi (PMF) fighters had made sweeping gains against Daesh.
Iraqi forces took control of eastern Mosul in January 2017 after 100 days of fighting and launched the battle in the west on February 19 last year.
