The story: An Iraqi court has handed the death sentence to a widow of late Islamic State group (IS) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. The woman was convicted for her alleged role in atrocities carried out by the militant group. While some have welcomed the ruling, others have criticized its references to “genocide” and “crimes against humanity”—terms that have no apparent legal basis in Iraqi law. The controversy surrounding the case has revived the censure of Iraq’s legal framework for supporting survivors of IS, even a decade after the group’s blitz in 2014.

The coverage: Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced the ruling on July 10, stating that Baghdad’s Karkh Criminal Court issued the...