Australian court hears bail arguments for woman accused of enslaving Yazidi teen in Syria

A woman accused of enslaving a Yazidi teenager in Syria would agree to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and undergo religious counseling if she were freed on bail, her lawyer told a court Friday.

Zeinab Ahmad, 31, continued an application for bail in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on two slavery charges. Her application was heard on Thursday and Friday. It will continue on June 15 when her lawyer Grace Morgan has called a police witness to testify.

The mother of three would live with her daughter in the Melbourne home of her uncle Abraham Abbas. The mechanic told the court he hated the Islamic State group.

“They’re evil and they don’t represent anything to do with Islam at all,” Abbas said.

Ahmad and her mother Kawsar Ahmad, 53, also known as Kawsar Abbas, have been in custody on slavery charges since they returned to Australia from a Syrian refugee camp last month with a group of Australian women and children linked to IS.

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