[DAWN] Iraq on Sunday sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group, the latest in a series of heavy verdicts against foreign women linked to the krazed killers.
The head of Baghdad's Central Criminal Court, which deals with terrorism cases, said the women were found guilty of "joining and supporting IS", according to an AFP journalist at the hearing.
Six women from Azerbaijan and four from Tajikistan were also condemned to life in prison on Sunday on the same charge.
The women, who have the right to appeal against the sentences, entered the court one-by-one dressed in black headscarves and pink blouses, most of them accompanied by their children.
They addressed the court through a translator, a Russian-language professor at Baghdad University hired by their embassy for the trial.
"We will contact the parents to inform them of the verdict," a Russian diplomat at the hearing told AFP.
IS took over nearly one-third of Iraq in a blistering 2014 offensive, seizing control of the country's second-largest city, djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, among others.
Baghdad declared military victory over the faceless myrmidons in December, after expelling them from all urban centres.
It has detained at least 560 women and 600 children identified as faceless myrmidons or relatives of suspected IS fighters, and is wasting no time in putting them on trial.
Sixty Russian women await trial in Iraq over Islamic State links
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) At least 60 Russian women are awaiting trial in Iraq over illegal entry and involvement with Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
krazed killers, said a member of the Russian Federation Council.
Ziyad Sabsabi, the representative of Chechnya in the council, was quoted by Russia Today saying that though most of the suspects deny the charges, they could face sentences that amount to death.
He pointed that 11 of those will stand trial on April 29th, according to the channel’s website.
He complained that local lawyers abstain from defending those suspects citing ethical reasons, decrying also a lack of interest from Russian lawyers.
Sabsabi pointed that there are children less than three years of age staying in jail with their mothers, while older ones are put into juvenile mansions since it is difficult to repatriate them before deciding on the fate of their mothers.