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Dutch court convicts ISIS member for war crimes

In first Netherlands trial dealing with ISIS war crimes, Dutch citizen, 24, is sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for posing with a crucified body and sharing pictures of dead victims online.

by  Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
Published on  07-23-2019 19:45
Last modified: 08-17-2022 12:17
Dutch court convicts ISIS member for war crimesReuters, file

An ISIS fighter brandishes a flag and an automatic rifle in Mosul, Iraq | File photo: Reuters, file

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Dutch judges on Tuesday convicted an Islamic State member for war crimes in Iraq and Syria and sentenced him to 7.5 years in prison after he posed with a crucified body and shared images of dead victims online.

Netherlands-born Oussama Achraf Akhlafa, 24, was found guilty of membership of a terrorist organization. He fought with ISIS in Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa, Syria, between 2014 and 2016.

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Prosecutors had sought a sentence of seven years, eight months.

The court said Akhlafa had posed smiling next to the crucified body of a man who had been executed by ISIS, and had posted the picture on Facebook.

"He violated the personal dignity of the deceased, thereby breaching the Geneva Convention," the court said, in a reference to the treaties protecting the rights of war victims.

Akhlafa was tried under so-called universal jurisdiction, which enables war crimes to be prosecuted regardless of where they were committed, in the first trial in the Netherlands dealing with war crimes committed by an ISIS member.

A second defendant, Dutch-born 24-year-old Reda Nidalha, was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for membership in a terrorist organization.

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