A Dutch court convicted a 32-year-old woman and sentenced her to six years' imprisonment Tuesday for involvement in war crimes committed by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
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In the ground-breaking conviction, The Hague District Court ruled that Islamic State is a criminal organization with the aim of committing war crimes and convicted the woman of involvement in the war crimes for spreading ISIS propaganda from her home near Amsterdam.
The woman's sentence was double the three years originally demanded by prosecutors, with judges saying the sentence request was "far too low" even though the defendant suffers from a what the court called a "psychological impulse disorder."
The woman distributed large amounts of ISIS propaganda via the Telegram messaging app in 2019.
She shared two videos of prisoners of war being killed and provided her own "humiliating" commentary for one of the executions. By doing so, "she abused the personal dignity of the deceased people and that is a war crime," the court said.
