Overview

• The defendant unexpectedly refused to answer any questions after initially indicating she would testify.
• During her uncle’s testimony about her mother’s death in infancy, she became visibly emotional and began to cry.
• Prosecutors accuse the couple of purchasing a five-year-old Yazidi girl as a so-called bride prize in late 2015, holding her in captivity for over two years.
• They also allege a second Yazidi girl, aged 12, was bought in 2017 and subjected to forced labor and sexual abuse.
• The proceedings in Munich represent one of Germany’s earliest applications of universal jurisdiction to prosecute alleged Islamic State atrocities.