The German-Tunisian woman was detained earlier this year after a cellphone provided fresh evidence about her time in Syria. She had married two IS fighters, one of whom was rapper-turned-extremist Denis Cuspert.
A Hamburg court sentenced the widow of German rapper-turned-jihadi Denis Cuspert to 3 years and 6 months in jail for membership of a terrorist organization abroad. Omaima A. was also found guilty of neglecting her duties as a parent, possessing illegal firearms and aiding and abetting slavery.
Omaima A. is believed to have traveled to Syria with her three small children in 2015 to join IS. She is accused of keeping a 13-year-old Yesidi girl as a slave.
Her former husband?Denis Cuspert, who used the name Deso Dogg during his rap career, is believed to have died in?Kobane?in 2018.
Caught by chance
The 36-year-old was arrested earlier this year after rumors of her presence in Germany spread when a cellphone purportedly belonging to her was discovered by a war reporter in Syria.
It was unclear how Omaima A. lost her phone or whether she deliberately left it behind when she decided to begin a new life in Germany, but it was said to contain some?36 gigabytes of data documenting her life with "Islamic State" (IS).
Unobtrusive presence
Born in Hamburg in 1984, Omaima A. is said to have been acquainted with some of Germany's most prominent Islamist extremists when she met her first husband Nadar H. and moved to Syria in 2015. He was ultimately killed in Syria while fighting for IS.
Later, Omaima A. became involved with and married Cuspert, who once went by the stage name Deso Dogg, but she later left him and is said to have returned to Germany in 2016 while pregnant with their child.
Cuspert was one of the most prominent Western IS fighters, having appeared in several propaganda videos including one that apparently showed him with a man's severed head.
According to German media outlets, Omaima A. was working as an event manager and interpreter after her quiet return.In addition to the charges of IS membership, she also stands accused of indoctrinating her children into the extremist ideology of the terrorist group.