Daesh Fighters Must Not Escape Justice In The UK
The post Daesh Fighters Must Not Escape Justice In The UK appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. [August 9, 2014] Thousands of Yezidis were trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape … More from Daesh. (Photo credit: Emrah Yorulmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) 2014 Anadolu Agency On May 13, 2025, the Joint Committee on Human Rights in the UK Parliament, a committee consisting of members of the upper and lower houses of the UK Parliament, published a report looking into the UK’s responses to Daesh atrocities, and in particular, to the Daesh fighters who returned to the UK. The report, which summarizes the findings of two years of inquiries spread across two Parliamentary sessions, stressed that despite hundreds of British Daesh fighters having returned to the UK, there have been zero successful prosecutions in UK courts for international crimes committed in Syria and Iraq by Daesh. The report further found that investigation and prosecution require better coordination, and for this, changes are needed. Daesh is a non-state terror organization that emerged in Iraq in the early 2000s. Its campaigns included horrific atrocities targeting religious and ethnic groups, including the Yazidis, with the aim of destroying their identities. On August 3, 2014, Daesh launched a devastating attack on Sinjar, inflicting widespread atrocities on the Yazidi community. The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers. Thousands of women and girls were kidnapped and subjected to sexual slavery and violence. To this day, over 2,600 Yazidi women and children remain unaccounted for. Daesh’s crimes included murder, enslavement, deportation, and forced displacement. The group systematically imprisoned, tortured, abducted, exploited, abused, raped, and coerced women into marriages across the region. In the days following the Sinjar assault, Daesh expanded its campaign of terror to other communities in the Nineveh Plains, causing 120,000 people to flee in the dead…
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[August 9, 2014] Thousands of Yezidis were trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape … More from Daesh. (Photo credit: Emrah Yorulmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) 2014 Anadolu Agency On May 13, 2025, the Joint Committee on Human Rights in the UK Parliament, a committee consisting of members of the upper and lower houses of the UK Parliament, published a report looking into the UK’s responses to Daesh atrocities, and in particular, to the Daesh fighters who returned to the UK. The report, which summarizes the findings of two years of inquiries spread across two Parliamentary sessions, stressed that despite hundreds of British Daesh fighters having returned to the UK, there have been zero successful prosecutions in UK courts for international crimes committed in Syria and Iraq by Daesh. The report further found that investigation and prosecution require better coordination, and for this, changes are needed. Daesh is a non-state terror organization that emerged in Iraq in the early 2000s. Its campaigns included horrific atrocities targeting religious and ethnic groups, including the Yazidis, with the aim of destroying their identities. On August 3, 2014, Daesh launched a devastating attack on Sinjar, inflicting widespread atrocities on the Yazidi community. The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers. Thousands of women and girls were kidnapped and subjected to sexual slavery and violence. To this day, over 2,600 Yazidi women and children remain unaccounted for. Daesh’s crimes included murder, enslavement, deportation, and forced displacement. The group systematically imprisoned, tortured, abducted, exploited, abused, raped, and coerced women into marriages across the region. In the days following the Sinjar assault, Daesh expanded its campaign of terror to other communities in the Nineveh Plains, causing 120,000 people to flee in the dead…
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