Islamic State widow tried in Iraq, faced life sentences

More than 11,000 women are being tried by an Iraqi Court on charges of both support and participation in the ISII military groups. When Mariam arrived in Mossul from Moscow in 2014, together with her husband and children, she could not imagine that one day she would be [...]
When Mariam arrived in Mossul from Moscow in 2014, together with her husband and children, she could not imagine that one day she would be in prison accused of being a <x0terrorist”>
“I was thinking as a Muslim to spend a lifetime in a Islamist country”, said Mariam, who at the same time carried her child Oussama.
Mariam was accused as a member of I SIL is in danger of spending the rest of my life in jail. She is not alone, reported “Alzeera”, broadcast Periscopi.
More than 1000 women are charged because of their deeds that they had performed while they were members of ISIL.
Most of them are widows after the destruction of ISIL. Everyone expects their hearings in a country where the justice system is described as “britco”. /Periscopi/
![A woman originally from Yatreb, Iraq, moved to Mosul with her husband to join I SIL 2014. They were especially farmers. The woman says that her husband was driven I SIL after his brother was killed by Iraq arms. She is living now in al-Shaham Camp with her three children. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/fe0039ef0e9244ac9dea765cbf9df1d9_8.jpg)

![Oussama, Mariam's daughter, wasborn in Iraq. Her mother is from Russia. She came to Iraq with her husband, believing to live a better life. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/6b0993541c7f4df4835461a28ab7fed9_8.jpg)
![Women from Russia and Thailand with their children are waiting their turn for the central Criminal Court in Baghdad, Iraq. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/39428854aafb433b82875089135d39b1_8.jpg)
![One of Saddam Hussein's cases in Tirrit that was destroyed after the US invasion. Next to this place, some 1935 cases were killed by I SIL on June 12, 2014. The incident is known as the Camp Speicher or Tikrit masse. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/37869d2d433f4b6cbe126a007fd439ae_8.jpg)
![An ISI remember in a small box at the Court of Hamdaniya, Iraq, on May 3, 2017. At that hearing, he was at the court as a question and not as an appropriate. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/9430f9c30905404e97bcf6753e68fc69_8.jpg)
![Ismail H,born in 1987, at the 'counterterrorism court' of Mosul, in Hamadiya, Iraq. Ismail was a member of I SIL. He ran to the Iraq forces. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/c56acf19a3734333915682aea3b305ab_8.jpg)
![In the turn's mountain Cell, where the parents wait for their turn to see the jury at the Central Criminal Court of Baghdad. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/20c22ecbc37e497691d720eaf189974c_8.jpg)
![A man thought of being an ISI remember in front of the jury at the trial at the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad, Iraq. He doesn't. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/f95aae6196174f41a78f8fdf685ecfe4_8.jpg)
![Before the powering of the power at the Central Criminal Court of Baghdad, priorsons came in a corridor. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/e91e2a7f60b044b7b706f4126956f538_8.jpg)
![Some corses of people who died holding the batle in Mosul in 2017 left for more than a week in the Old City of Mosul. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/61a61ee1981643e1b38214a6ea37e381_8.jpg)
![Al-Nuri Mosque in the Old City of Mosul was blowing up by I SIL in June 2017 ducing the final period of the batle in the city. In this Mosque in June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaid a self-stored calyphate, the Islamic State or I SIL. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/5ef23fe7068f40e9aaceeeba4046dcff_8.jpg)
![A child playing in the faucles under the Al-Nouri Mosque in the Old City of Mosul. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/919ff0f6306849d4a32ad0b5e7ab7615_8.jpg)
![An Iraqioldier on board duty in the Old City of Mosul. Through the town was published from I SIL in Julius 2017, arrests of I SIL Fighters continue in the city. [Alessio Mamo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/f737c272589d4c16887c432bdf84e732_8.jpg)












