Two hours, 14 death sentences: Iraq is ramping up prosecutions of those accused of supporting ISIS, sentencing workers, wives and bystanders
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:19 PM EST
The 42-year-old housewife had two minutes to defend herself against charges of supporting the Islamic State.
Amina Hassan, a Turkish woman in a flowing black abaya, told the Iraqi judge that she and her family had entered Syria and Iraq illegally and lived in the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate for more than two years. But, she added: “I never took money from Islamic State. I brought my own money from Turkey.”
The whole trial lasted 10 minutes before the judge sentenced her to death by hanging.
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