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ISIS media said on Saturday the extremist group had set a one million dollar reward for killing a Danish student who dropped out of school in 2014 to fight the group as part of Kurdish forces.

Joanna Palani, 23, who has Iranian and Kurdish origins, is now facing six months in prison and had her passport confiscated upon her return home last year for breaking national laws preventing citizens from fighting for foreign countries.

A 12-month travel ban was imposed on her to prevent her from travelling back to the conflict in September 2015, but in a closed court hearing last week she admitted travelling as far as Doha, Qatar, on 6 June this year and was taken into custody. She has another hearing on Tuesday.

Her lawyer, Erbil Kaya, noted the irony of seeking to prosecute someone who fought on the same side as Danish troops and other coalition forces while the government seeks to rehabilitate returning ISIS terrorists.

“How can I pose a threat to Denmark and other countries by being a soldier in an official army that Denmark trains and supports directly in the fight against the Islamic State?” she posted on Facebook after being subjected to a travel ban.

The first session of her trial over breaking travel restrictions is slated for December 20th, according to local newspaper Belingske Tidende.

Palani was born in a refugee camp in Iraq’s city of Ramadi during the Gulf War, and migrated to Denmark during her childhood. Her father and grandfather were members of Kurdish army troops, the Peshmerga.

Speaking on her way to her detention she said she would try to plead her case on behalf of those who died fighting ISIS. “The YPJ are not terrorists – we are fighting terrorists. To say we are not part of the coalition fighting against ISIS is an insult to every YPJ woman who died in Kobani doing exactly that.”