An Iraqi man, identified in reporting as Taha Al-J. / Taha al-Jumailly, has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Frankfurt, Germany for crimes committed against Yazidi girls and women during the Islamic State’s 2014 attacks in northern Iraq. The case was described as a landmark prosecution applying Germany’s universal jurisdiction laws to atrocity crimes committed abroad.

Prosecutors said the court found that he bought a Yazidi woman and her five-year-old daughter as slaves after the girls were captured. The sentencing judgment said the defendant punished the child by chaining her to a window in extreme summer heat, leaving her without protection and, in prosecutors’ account, to die—an act the court treated as part of broader genocidal intent directed at the Yazidi religious minority. The verdict also covered other serious offences, including genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; reporting said the defendant was found guilty as a member of the Islamic State.