The Swedish woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and war crimes against Yazida people after joining the Jihadist group of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
Lina Ishaq, 52, was found guilty of holding three women Yazidi and six children Yazidi as slaves in Raqqi between 2014-2016. In September last year.
It is the first time the crimes against Yazidis, one of the Iraqi religious minorities, have been tried in Sweden.
Ishaq joined the IS and moved his family to Syria in 2013. He is already serving a prison sentence for separating a two-year-old son in Syria, and “failure to prevent” is to use his 12-year-old son as a children’s soldier. He died in 2017, 16 years old.
Ishaq forced their prisoners to wear a veil and practice Islam, and she physically attacked them.
“The convicted woman was part of a large enslave system that was introduced for women and children of Yazida,” said the chairman of the Stockholm District Court, Maria Ulfsdotter Klang.
“She acted independently in maintaining the enslavement and lack of freedom of victims and contributed to further traffic.”
Yazids are an ancient religious minority that is mostly based on the Sinjar region in Northern Iraq.
In early August 2014, the settlements of Yazidi in the Sinjar region were attacked, which launched a genocide campaign against them.
About 5,000 Yazidis was killed over a period of three years and half a million people were displaced.
More than 6,000 women and children were taken trapped and held as slaves. Whether members are tortured to their detainees and have been subjected to strategic sexual violence with the aim of eradicating the Yazidi people, According to the UN.
Lina Ishaq was born in Iraq the Christian family, who moved to Sweden when she was a child, a Swedish media report. She moved to Islam before her marriage.
Together with around 300 other Swedish nationals, a quarter of them womenIshaq joined in 2013.
When the so -called caliphate began to collapse in 2017, Ishaq fled Raqq and fled to Turkey. She was extradited to Sweden in 2020.
Sweden is now home to about 6,000 Yazidis.
Dawood Khalaf, president of the Yazidi Association in Scaraborg, said the Ishaq prosecutor’s office helped the construction of trust between the community in Sweden and the local authorities.
“I know that the women who called for a Swedish police who did not dare testify to the fear of being overwhelmed by the ISU,” he told the SVT public emitter. “After this indictment, the picture changed.”
Ishaq’s lawyer Mikael Westerlund said Ishaq still denied the charges and that he would consider the appeal.
