A Swedish girl has been sentenced to twelve years in jail for committing crimes in opposition to Yazidi girls and kids in Syria whilst she used to be a member of Islamic State.
A Swedish girl has been sentenced to twelve years in jail for committing “genocide, crimes in opposition to humanity and severe battle crimes” against Yazidi other folks in Syria after she had joined the phobia team Islamic State (IS).
The 52-year-old Swedish citizen Lina Ishaq used to be discovered responsible of enslaving 3 girls and 6 kids for months. She additionally bodily abused them and compelled them to observe Islam.
She used to be convicted of “genocide, crimes in opposition to humanity and severe battle crimes”, a Swedish court docket stated on Tuesday. She used to be already serving a 6-year sentence for taking her then 12-year-old son to Syria and permitting him to be recruited as an IS soldier. He died in fight elderly 16.
Ishaq is accused of committing the crimes all over the duration from August 2014 to December 2016 within the Syrian town of Raqqa, which on the time used to be the seat of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate and residential to about 300,000 other folks.
She joined the phobia team in 2013, along side 300 different Swedish nationals, maximum of them girls, in line with the rustic’s intelligence carrier.
The trial marks the primary time that IS assaults in opposition to the Yazidis, considered one of Iraq’s oldest spiritual minorities, were attempted in Sweden.
IS kidnapped Yazidi girls and kids and taken them to Syria in 2014, when its militants stormed Yazidi cities and villages in Iraq’s Sinjar area. Ladies had been pressured into sexual slavery and boys had been taken to be indoctrinated in jihadi ideology.
Round 5,000 Yazidis had been killed and over 400,000 other folks displaced. There are crrently round 6,000 Yazidis in Sweden.
3 years later, when the Islamic State’s reign started to cave in, Ishaq fled from Raqqa and used to be captured by way of Syrian Kurdish troops.
She controlled to achieve Turkey, the place she used to be arrested along with her son and two different kids she had given beginning to within the interim with an IS international fighter from Tunisia. She extradited to Sweden in 2020.