![Interview: Coalition for Genocide Response chair talks to JURIST about UK finding that Daesh crimes against Yazidis are genocide](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/08/Interview-2.jpg)
The UK Government formally acknowledged on Tuesday that atrocities committed against the Yazidi people in 2014 by Daesh, commonly known as ISIS, constituted genocide. The UK government’s statement follows a January 2023 German Federal Court of Justice ruling which found a former Daesh fighter guilty of acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. The determination by the UK [...]