Taha al-Jumailly

Taha al-Jumailly, also known as Taha al-J, (born ) is an Iraqi former member of Islamic State (ISIS) currently serving a life sentence in Germany for his role in the Yazidi genocide. He is believed to be the first ISIS member to be found guilty of genocide.

Islamic State Al-Jumailly joined Islamic State in 2013. As a member of the group he held several roles in Raqqa, the group's Syrian "capital", and in his home country of Iraq. While in Syria in 2015 he met Jennifer Wenisch, a German Islamic convert who had recently emigrated to the Middle East, at a Quran reading he was holding at Wenisch's guest house. Wenisch showed interest in marrying al-Jumailly but said she did not want to look after the household, and al-Jumailly agreed to find some household help. Shortly afterwards, al-Jumailly purchased a Yazidi woman and her five-year-old daughter Reda as slaves while on an ISIS base. The two victims had been captured by ISIS during the Sinjar massacre in August 2014 and had been sold and resold several times.

Wenisch and al-Jumailly married in summer of 2015. The woman was forced to perform regular Islamic prayers, and she and her daughter were physically abused by al-Jumailly, often at Wenisch's request. He then took Reda outside and tied her to a metal window grille, tightening her restraints to the point that she was unable to breathe or stand.

Al-Jumailly was charged with committing genocide against the Yazidis. Prosecutors argued that al-Jumailly's actions had been performed in furtherance of Islamic State's extermination campaign against the Yazidi minority, and thus had the necessary intent to be guilty of the crime. al-Jumailly fainted when he learned that he had been convicted. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the same day.