The Paris Court of Appeal has ruled that Sonia Mejri, a French national who returned from Syria, will stand trial for genocide committed against the Yazidis.

The court decided that 36-year-old Sonia Mejri, who returned from Syria, will be tried in a special criminal court for crimes against humanity, including genocide. These crimes include enslaving and imprisoning a Yazidi youth in the spring of 2015, as well as religious- and gender-based persecution and other inhumane acts.

Sonia Mejri, the former wife of ISIS commander Abelnasser Benyoucef, will be the first French national returning from Syria to stand trial in France for genocide committed against the Yazidi community.

With this decision, Mejri will be tried not only for previously documented terrorism and crimes against humanity, but also specifically for genocide, at a special criminal court established to handle terrorism cases.

Before leaving France to join ISIS in 2014, Sonia Mejri operated a small food stand. While in Syria, she married French-Algerian Abdelnasser Benyoucef, considered a key member of the ISIS operations cell. Benyoucef was tried in absentia for genocide, crimes against humanity, and terrorism for ordering a failed attack on a church in Villejuif, a suburb of Paris, in 2015. He is believed to have been killed in 2016.

The Yazidi woman, now 26 years old, was kidnapped, abused, and raped for six years by various ISIS members, including Benyoucef. He later sold her to another torturer, a senior ISIS commander.