A woman accused of marrying Islamic State fighters and allegedly living with a teenage slave who was repeatedly raped and beaten has had her bail application opposed by police. The 31-year-old woman was charged with slavery offences a month ago and it is alleged she made social media posts saying her husband had lived out his dream of becoming a martyr after he died in a Syrian drone strike in 2016.
Police have opposed bail, claiming the 31-year-old is an unacceptable risk to the community if released. A woman accused of marrying Islamic State fighters allegedly lived with a teenage slave who was repeatedlyMagistrates Court on Thursday as Zeinab Ahmad, 31, applied for bail, a month after she was charged with slavery offences.
Australian Federal Police allege Ahmad left Melbourne to go to Turkey with her husband Dawod in November 2014. She told migration officers her plan was to stay there for seven months but it’s alleged the couple instead moved to Syria in January 2015. Ahmad’s husband Dawod became an IS member but he died in a Syrian drone strike in May 2016, Detective Senior Constable Marc Clendenning told the court.
After his death, it’s alleged Ahmad made social media posts saying Dawod had lived out his dream of becoming a martyr. Police say Ahmad was living in the family home in Syria in 2017 when her father Mohammad bought a teenage girl as a slave for $US10,000. It’s alleged the girl was repeatedly raped and beaten by Mohammad, including an incident where she was hit and dragged down two flights of stairs by the hair.
The girl told police she had screamed loudly during the incidents so Ahmad and the other family members would have known what was happening, the detective said. It is not alleged Ahmad assaulted the girl but the teen claims she was “treated very badly” by the woman. The teen was sold a further seven times before she was freed from slavery.
Ahmad and her mother Kawsar, 52, were among a group of alleged “ISIS brides” and their children who returned to Australia in May. Human rights activist Robert Van Aalst, who helped the women and children return to Australia from Syria, attended court on Thursday along with supporters of Ahmad. In opposing bail on Thursday, Clendenning told the court Ahmad was an unacceptable risk of endangering the community.
She had married another two IS members and was still married to an Egyptian-born fighter whose location was unknown, the detective told the court. Ahmad had never explicitly renounced IS and she pursued living under the terror group in Syria, Clendenning said. The bail application before Chief Magistrate Lisa Hannan will continue on Friday.
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