A woman closed in Sweden for holding Yazida slaves in Syria | News of the courts
The 52-year-old receives 12 years in prison for ‘genocide, crime against humanity and serious war crimes’ ISIL in 2015.
The Swedish court has convicted Women under 12 prison for charges of genocide for holding Yazida women and children as slaves in her home in Syria, in the first court in the country for the crime committed by ISIL (ISIS) Group against the minority.
The 52-year-old Swedish citizen, Lina Ishaq, has been convicted of “genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes” 2015, according to a statement on Tuesday. She noted that her actions are part of the wider ISIL campaign against the Kurdish speeches of Yazidi minority.
For centuries the Yazids have been persecuted For his religious beliefs of the Ottomans, the Arabs and recently, in the brutal campaign of death and sexual slavery of ISIL.
The Swedish court said this specific case was mostly concerned with nine injured parties, six of which were children at the time.
“The woman kept them closed and treated them as their property holding them as slaves, in most cases, five months,” the court said, adding that their movement was limited, and they were made to perform jobs and some had photographed is in preparation for transferring others.
The court emphasized “that the comprehensive enslaving system” was one of the “key elements” that Isil spent in crimes against people from the Yazida Community, and in turn her crimes justified the punishment of 16 years. But considering the previous sentence, the court set a sentence for 12 years.
The woman is already in prison for sentenced the Swedish court to six years in prison in 2022 for the permission of her 12-year-old son to employ as a children’s soldier for ISIL.
‘Fall in the Ocean’
Reporting from Stockholm, Paul Rhys Al Jazeera said that Ishaq grew up in the Iraq Christian family before turning to Islam, and one of her sons was a Islam soldier who was killed in the battle.
“This punishment for 12 years [for Ishaq]Only the fall in the ocean of justice that Yazidis hopes. Thousands are still missing and countless bodies are still trying to identify authorities in Iraq, “he added.
About 300 Swedish inhabitants, a quarter of them, women, connected Isil in Syria and Iraq, mainly in 2013 and 2014, according to the Sapo State intelligence service.
Sweden at that time did not have the existing legislation for the prosecution of people for membership in the armed organization, so prosecutors instead sought other crimes with whom they were charging the returnees.
According to Swedish law, courts can try people for crimes against international law committed abroad.
According to the United Nations, the employment and use of children under the age of 15 as soldiers were banned under the International Humanitarian Law and was recognized as a war crime by the International Criminal Court.