3 Frenchmen get life in Iraq for IS ties
A court building where French nationals accused of belonging to Islamic State
are standing trial in Baghdad, Iraq.
Three French nationals were sentenced to life in prison in Iraq on Thursday for belonging to Islamic State, with their lawyers and French embassy representatives present at the hearing, a court statement said.
The three were among 47 French Islamic State suspects transferred from detention facilities in northeast Syria to Iraq last year.
On Tuesday, six French nationals from the same group were sentenced to life in prison and a seventh to 15 years for belonging to the Islamist militant group.
Islamic State seized large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014 before being driven from its self-declared caliphate by a US-led coalition and local forces in 2019.
Many of its fighters were detained, but remnants of the organisation continue to operate.
