Lia Mulla, who was captured by Islamic State members in August 2014 as she tried to flee Iraq's Mount Sinjar with her family, testified through a translator on Monday at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, who was allegedly one of Mueller's IS jailers
El Shafee Elsheikh was not a typical Islamic State foot soldier who took particular pleasure in mistreating the hostages he held captive, prosecutors said in opening statements of Elsheikh's terrorism trial.
Defense lawyers for a British national facing trial later this month for helping the Islamic State group torture and behead American hostages are seeking to block testimony from a Kurdish girl held as a slave by the group.
The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.