\n A German-Tunisian woman who married a German rapper turned Islamic State fighter and who kept a child slave in Syria went on trial on Monday.\n<\/p>\n
\n The woman, named as 35-year-old Omaima M., faces a slew of charges including membership of a foreign terror group, human trafficking and crimes against humanity.\n<\/p>\n
\n She appeared before the higher regional court in Hamburg dressed in a blue blazer, using a magazine to cover her face from photographers.\n<\/p>\n
\n Omaima M. is widely known in Germany for having been the wife of the late German-Ghanaian rapper and IS jihadist Denis Cuspert, who went by the stage name Deso Dogg.\n<\/p>\n
\n Prosecutors said Omaima A. had travelled to Syria in January 2015 with her three children to join her first husband and their father, Nadar H., in Syria.\n<\/p>\n
\n She lived under IS rules, raising her children following the group's doctrines, and receiving monthly financial help from the militant outfit, prosecutors said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Between spring and summer 2015, Omaima A. allegedly held a 13-year-old Yazidi girl as a slave.\n<\/p>\n
\n She married the rapper Denis Cuspert after her first husband was killed in an air raid in Kobane, according to prosecutors.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cuspert was one of the most notorious Western fighters for IS, having appeared in several propaganda videos including one that apparently showed him with a man's severed head.\n<\/p>\n
\n Omaima M. subsequently left Cuspert and returned to Germany pregnant with their child, as well as her three other children, in 2016.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cuspert was killed in an airstrike in Syria in 2018.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to German media, Omaima A. quietly slipped back into German society after her return to Europe, working as an event manager and interpreter.\n<\/p>\n
\n But a Lebanese journalist broke her story last year, sparking outrage in Germany over why she had not faced prosecution back in her home country.\n<\/p>\n
\n Omaima M. was arrested in Hamburg last September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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