Joanna Palani

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Joanna Palani (* 1993 in Ramadi ) is a Danish - Kurdish student, fighter on the side of the women's defense units of the People's Defense Units (YPG) and the Peshmerga .

Life

Palani comes from a Kurdish family from Iran and was in the UN - refugee camps born in Ramadi. When Palani was three years old, her family emigrated with her to Denmark . After school, she started at the University of Copenhagen , a philosophy - and policy studies . During her studies, she traveled to Aleppo in 2011 . After completing military training with the Kurdish Women's Defense Units, she took part in the Battle of Kobanê in 2014 and the Battle of Manbij in 2016 . She was a member of the YPG for six months and of the Peshmerga for another six months . According to press reports, during her military service as a sniper she had killed more than one hundred IS terrorists and was involved in the liberation of an IS prison with underage girls who were forced into prostitution .

During a visit to her family in Denmark in 2016, Palani was banned from leaving the country for twelve months. After yet in June 2016, following Doha traveled, she was in custody taken. If Palani is convicted, she faces up to two years in prison. The basis is a law that Denmark introduced in March 2015 to prevent ISIS sympathizers from traveling to the Middle East . According to her own statements, Palani cannot understand this procedure because she has exercised her right to defend her Kurdish homeland against the terrorist organization Islamic State . She says she would also defend her second homeland, Denmark, by gun and believes that she defended Europe's values ​​in the battles in the Syrian civil war .

Palani lives and studies in Copenhagen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gernot Kramper: "IS fighters are very easy to kill" . In: Stern . June 5, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Danish woman who fought against Isis faces jail sentence . In: The Guardian , December 19, 2016, accessed July 29, 2017.
  3. ^ Lara Whyte: The girl who ran away to fight ISIS . In: broadly.vice.com , May 25, 2016, accessed July 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ Nick Fagge: "ISIS want to kill me, capture me and turn me into a sex slave": Danish student branded a terrorist after training as "Lady Death" sniper to fight jihadis in Syria reveals she has lost everything . In: Daily Mail , February 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ Andrea Tedeschi: She killed and saved . In: Tages-Anzeiger , December 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ Dunja Ramadan: Good fighters, bad fighters - no legal difference . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 26, 2016, accessed on August 4, 2017.
  7. ↑ Danish woman faces jail time for traveling to MidEast to battle ISIS . In: The Jerusalem Post , December 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Palani, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-Kurdish fighter and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramadi