Clooney represents Yazidi women and girls who were held in the house of Umm Sayyaf, the wife of Islamic State financier Abu Sayyaf. “Umm Sayyaf showed no solidarity with her fellow females: She locked them in a room, instigated their beatings and put makeup on them to ‘prepare’ them for rape,” Clooney said. Mueller’s death was reported in February 2015 and U.S. intelligence officials told her family four months later that she was repeatedly forced to have sex with al-Baghdadi. Umm Sayyaf was turned over to the Iraqi Kurds for trial. The Islamic State group claimed Mueller was killed by a Jordanian air strike near Raqqa, the group’s then self-declared capital in Syria.

Source: National Post April 24, 2019 14:26 UTC