{"id":25055,"date":"2026-06-05T00:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/25055\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T00:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:37:20","slug":"former-isis-bride-zeinab-ahmads-chilling-slavery-allegations-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/25055\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ISIS bride Zeinab Ahmad\u2019s chilling slavery allegations revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accused slave owner Zeinab Ahmad<\/a> didn\u2019t just follow her former Jihadi husband into the heart of the Islamic State, she celebrated atrocities, advocated for brutal \u00adviolence against the US and its \u00adallies, and ultimately embedded herself onto the payroll of a terrorist regime, a court has heard.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old former ISIS bride appeared before Chief Magistrate Lisa Hannan in the Melbourne Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday for a high-stakes bail application, where federal police detailed Australia\u2019s first prosecution for crimes against humanity. <\/p>\n

Ms Ahmad faces charges of enslavement and using a slave, which carry maximum penalties of 25 years imprisonment per offence.<\/p>\n

A police summary delivered by Detective Senior Constable Marc Clendenning detailed the direct testimony of the Yazidi victim<\/a> who the accused allegedly helped keep in their Syrian home after her \u00adfather purchased her from a slave market.<\/p>\n

Mr Clendenning told the court the AFP had been investigating the Ahmad family since 2017 after they left Australia for Syria in 2014.<\/p>\n

The court heard that in 2014, the alleged victim, then a 15-year-old Yazidi girl, was captured by the Islamic State in Sinjar, Iraq. Her father and brother were killed, and she was sold into sexual slavery, passing through 17 different owners over five years.<\/p>\n

Police allege that during Ramadan in May 2017, the slave was brought to a residence in Mayadin, Syria, where she was inspected by the accused\u2019s father, Muhammad Ahmad, and her co-accused mother, Kawsar Abbas, 54. <\/p>\n

Mr Ahmad allegedly ordered the teenager to remove her outer garments to inspect her body, stating he was purchasing her for \u201csexual relations and domestic housework\u201d. Ms Abbas allegedly consented to the arrange\u00adment, and Mr Ahmad purchased the slave for $US10,000 cash at a local market.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want you for the purpose of raping and serving the home,\u201d he allegedly told the girl. The alleged victim was held in the Ahmad family household for 16 months as they moved through Mayadin, Raqqa, and Hajin.<\/p>\n

According to police evidence, the girl was locked inside the house, denied a phone, forbidden from leaving unaccompanied, and forced to perform all cleaning duties. She told AFP investigators that Mr Ahmad routinely assaulted her, on one occasion dragging her down two flights of concrete stairs, causing back injuries and severe bruising.<\/p>\n

The court heard that two days after the purchase, Mr Ahmad began sexually assaulting the alleged victim. She stated that she fought back, screamed, and pushed him away repeatedly over the course of a month. She told police that both accused slave owners before the courts and their relatives were present in the house and within earshot during these assaults but did not intervene. <\/p>\n

Police allege Ms Abbas had enforced the enslavement by forcing the alleged victim to read the Koran, threatening to have her beaten or resold if she disobeyed, and stating she must learn to use firearms because they had to follow the ISIS police. The young Yazidi girl reported seeing both Ms\u00a0Abbas and Ms Ahmad in possession of Glock pistols and AK-47 assault rifles, as well as large quantities of ISIS paper currency.<\/p>\n

The AFP presented extensive digital evidence to counter claims that Ms Ahmad was a submissive, trapped dependent. Her former husband Dawood Elmir<\/a>, with whom she travelled to Syria in late 2014, was killed in a coalition drone strike in May 2016. Following his death, she did not attempt to return to Australia. Instead, she obtained employment with the official ISIS Women\u2019s and Orphans Department in Raqqa, operating under the Bureau of Al-Rikaz, the court heard.<\/p>\n

Several of her social media posts that supported ISIS were read out in court. \u201cI ask Allah to accept this sacrifice of ours,\u201d she wrote in one post. \u201cMay Allah destroy the United States and its allies,\u201d another post read.<\/p>\n

The accused was seen wiping tears as evidence from her social media accounts were aired.<\/p>\n

The bail application continues on Friday.<\/p>\n

\"Mohammad<\/a>Mohammad Alfares<\/a>Journalist<\/p>\n

Mohammad Alfares is a journalist based in the Melbourne bureau of The Australian, where he covers breaking news, politics, legal affairs, and religious issues. He began filming and editing homemade ‘productions’ as a child \u2014 an early sign of his future in journalism. He holds a Bachelor of Communication from Massey University in New Zealand and began his career in broadcast news before transitioning to print. Outside the newsroom, Mohammad is an avid fisherman and adrenaline-seeker. When he\u2019s not chasing a big catch, he enjoys unwinding with a good coffee, fresh air, and a ride on his motorbike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accused slave owner Zeinab Ahmad didn\u2019t just follow her former Jihadi husband into the heart of the Islamic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23189,23192,594,9919,124,23197,297,23199,22,23,133,21,10246,23184,23193,23181,23187,23188,5738,23190,5050,23185,2601,8225,23195,23194,2602,8297,23198,23186,10527,5177,3775,23183,23200,119,135,120,23191,23196,23180,18077,23201,10520,106,20466,18892,276,117,23182,282],"class_list":["post-25055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-abraham-abass","tag-accused-slave-owner","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-alleged-victim","tag-america","tag-anita-lester","tag-asia","tag-assault-rifles","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-austrlia","tag-bail-application","tag-brides-rescue","tag-bureau-of-al-rikaz","tag-chilling-slavery-allegations","tag-coalition-drone-strike","tag-constable-marc-clendenning","tag-court-case","tag-court-sketch","tag-david-geraghty","tag-dawood-elmir","tag-facebook","tag-family-home","tag-harrowing-details","tag-high-stakes-bail-application","tag-inc","tag-kawsar-abbas","tag-legitimate-humanitarian-work","tag-living-room-wall","tag-magistrate-lisa-hannan","tag-magistrates-court","tag-martin-keep","tag-military-camouflage-fatigues","tag-muhammad-ahmad","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-outer-garments","tag-performing-jihadist-salutes","tag-police-evidence","tag-police-summary","tag-slave-owners","tag-slavery-offences","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-accounts","tag-social-media-posts","tag-syria","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-victim-multiple-times","tag-western-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}