At least 60 Russian women are awaiting trial in Iraq over illegal entry, membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and involvement in acts of terror across the war-ravaged Arab country.

Ziyad Sabsabi, a Russian senator and Deputy Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, said the suspects face sentences that could amount to death penalty, noting that most of the women deny their charges.

He pointed out that nearly a dozen of them will stand trial on Sunday, stating that there are children, who are less than three years of age and staying in jail with their mothers.

On April 17, the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq announced in a statement that the Central Criminal Court had sentenced three Azerbaijani women and a female Kyrgyz citizen to death over affiliation to Daesh terror outfit.

The court also handed life sentences to two Russian nationals and one woman from France.
On April 2, the Central Criminal Court sentenced six Turkish women to death and handed down a life term to another.

The women, all accompanied by small children, told the court they had entered Iraq to join their husbands, who were fighting within the ranks of the terror outfit.

In January, Iraqi judicial officials sentenced a German citizen of Moroccan origin to death by hanging in accordance with Anti-Terrorism Law.

Abdul Sattar al-Biraqdar, spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, said the woman, whose identity was not disclosed, had confessed during investigations that she traveled from Germany to Syria and then to Iraq, because she had a strong belief in Daesh.

The German citizen was accompanied with her two daughters, who later married members of Daesh terrorist group.

Iraq has detained at least 560 women, as well as 600 children, identified as Takfiris or relatives of Daesh terrorists.

Experts estimate that a total of 20,000 people are being held in jail in Iraq for alleged membership of Daesh. The Baghdad government has not released an official figure as yet.