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Dutch to prosecute woman for Islamic State membership, Yazidi enslavement

FILE PHOTO: Coffins with remains of Yazidis who were killed by Islamic State militants are seen during a funeral in Kojo, Iraq on February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Charlotte Bruneau/File Photo

Prosecutors in the Netherlands on Friday announced they plan to put a Dutch woman who joined Islamic State on trial for crimes against humanity for enslaving a Yazidi woman in Syria in 2015.

The woman, identified by Dutch media as Hasna Aarab, will also be tried for membership of a terrorist organisation along with 11 other women who were repatriated to the Netherlands in November last year from camps for IS members in Syria.

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