On November 30, 2021, the 5th Senate (State Security [Staatsschutzsenat]) of the Higher Regional Court Frankfurt/Main (Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main) sentenced an Iraqi man, Taha Al-Jumailly who is an ISIS member, to life imprisonment for “genocide and other criminal offences.” According to a press release from the Court, the Court found Taha Al-Jumailly “guilty of genocide in combination with a crime against humanity resulting in death, a war crime against persons resulting in death, aiding and abetting a war crime against persons.” The Court stated that the ISIS carried out attacks on Yazidi settlements and persecuted the Yazidis to eliminate them. The Court decided that Taha Al-Jumailly, by forcing the joint plaintiff and her daughter to remain under the sun, an act which led to physical injury of the joint plaintiff and death of the daughter (both Yazidis), acted “with the intend to eliminate the Yazidi religious minority.” With this intention, Taha Al-Jumailly’s acts formed the criminal offense of genocide. The judgment is yet to be finalized.

Similar to the court’s findings on genocide against the Yazidis, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, which was established by the UN Human Rights Council, also confirmed, in its report dated June 15, 2016, that “ISIS has committed the crime of genocide as well as multiple crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Yazidis.”