An Iraqi from the Islamic State jihadist group was sentenced by a German court for genocide over the murder of Yazidis.
The Frankfurt court judges found Taha Al-Jumailly "guilty of genocide, of a crime against humanity resulting in death".
This is the first time that a court has ruled that the atrocities committed against the Yazidis amount to genocide, already recognised as such by UN investigators.
Prosecutors said the former IS member and his wife enslaved a Yazidi girl and her mother in Iraq. He then left the young girl chained in the open sun where he let her die of heat and malnourishment.
It was punishment for having wet the bed, prosecutors say. The child's mother testified at the trial.
Jennifer W. was convicted in a separate trial in
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