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French woman faces genocide trial over enslavement of Yazidi girl

Displaced people from the Yazidi minority flee violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour on 13 August, 2014. © Reuters - Youssef Boudlal

A French woman accused of holding a Yazidi teenager in slavery in Syria in 2015 will stand trial in Paris on charges of genocide.

Sonia Mejri, 36, will be the first French citizen ever tried for genocide and the first French returnee from Syria to face this charge in connection with the Islamic State (IS) group.

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