Joanna Palani, fought for a year in Syria against ISIS and Assad's forces

The 23-year-old is being tried under Denmark's 'foreign fighter' rule

She had her passport seized by police and was given a year travel ban in 2015

Miss Palani said she was fighting with the Kurds 'for human rights for all people'

A young Danish-Kurdish woman who fled her homeland to fight ISIS in Syria could receive up to six months in prison for fighting against the extremist group.

Joanna Palani, 23, is facing punishment from Copenhagen City Court after she violated Denmark's 'foreign fighter' rule, which aims to stop Danes who fight alongside terror groups.

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Miss Palani is being tried under that same law, although she was ironically fighting against the jihadis.

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Joanna Palani, 23, left Copenhagen to go and fight for the Kurds in Syria against ISIS and Assad's troops. She is now facing up to six months in prison for fighting against the terror group

The tough law is in place to strengthen domestic counter-extremism efforts, due to Denmark having one of the largest number of foreign fighters in Syria per capita.

This isn't Miss Palani's first run-in with the Denmark government. Last year her passport was confiscated by police and the Danish intelligence service PET.

She received a year travel ban, imposed in September 2015, for fighting with Kurds against ISIS but she violated the restriction when she went to Qatar in June.

Now Miss Palani is facing a six-month prison sentence for defying this ban and will appear back in court on December 20.

Miss Palani is being tried under Denmark's 'foreign fighter' rule and had her passport seized in 2015

She was given a year travel ban, which she violated in June

The politics and philosophy student said she went to fight for the Kurds in Syria 'for human rights for all people'.

Earlier this year, she revealed ISIS soldiers are 'very easy to kill' compared to President Assad's 'specialist killing machines.'

During her time in the war-torn region she recalled the horrors she witnessed first-hand in an interview with Lara Whyte for Broadly.

On her first night on the front line her comrade - a Swedish fighter - was killed by a sniper who shot him between the eyes after seeing smoke from his cigarette.

She also described the sickening moment she found a large group of children being held for sexual abuse by ISIS terrorists after liberating a village near Mosul.

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After leaving Denmark in November 2014, Miss Palani first joined the YPG (People's Protection Unit) and then the Peshmerga, the Western-trained and backed army of the Kurdish Regional Government.

She said at the time: 'The Kurds are fighting for democracy and Western values. If I get captured or killed, I will be proud of why I was killed.'

She was constantly faced with danger but said she never wished she was home again.

In the interview with Broadly, she said: 'I wasn't taking it seriously when I first came there. But after the first attack I did. I took it seriously indeed.'

Miss Palani first joined the YPG (People's Protection Unit) and then the Peshmerga, the Western-trained and backed army of the Kurdish Regional Government

While in Syria she fought both ISIS militants and Assad's troops, who have been known to attack with chlorine gas, barrel bombs and vacuum bombs - all banned under international law.

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Comparing the two, she said: 'ISIS fighters are very easy to kill. ISIS fighters are very good at sacrificing their own lives, but Assad's soldiers are very well trained and they are specialist killing machines.'

Towards the end of her time in Syria she was part of a battalion that freed a village near Mosul from ISIS.

There she found young girls locked up in a 'holding house', held for sexual abuse by the murderous thugs.

MIss Palani became famous worldwide when she left Denmark and headed to the Middle East

The Danish student had her passport confiscated when she returned to her homeland - even though she was fighting ISIS and Assad's troops

She told Broadly: 'All the girls were under 16 - some were really young. I met this girl in the hospital we had to bring them to.

'She was a Syrian Christian and she died holding my hand because she was 11-year-old and she was pregnant with twins. Her little face was so swollen. It just wasn't right. I remember the doctor crying and yelling at me and my first soldier.'

'I would give my life for Europe, for democracy, for freedom and for women's rights. I feel like I have been betrayed by those who I was ready to sacrifice my life for', she said.