A Swedish woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and military crimes against the Yazidi people after joining the Islamic State jihadist group (IS) in Syria.
Lina Isaac, 52, was condemned by preparing three women from Yazidi and six children in Yazidi Kabid in Raqqa between 2014-2016 in September last year.
This is the first time that crimes against Yazidis are tried, and it is one of the religious minorities in Iraq, in Sweden.
Ishaq joined, and her family transferred to Syria in 2013. She is already serving the prison sentence to take her two -year -old son to Syria and “failure to prevent” is the use of her 12 -year -old son as a child soldier. He died in 2017, 16 years old.
Isaac forced her prisoners to wear a veil and practice Islam, and bodily assaulted them.
“The convicted woman was part of the large -scale slavery system, which was presented to women and children,” said Stockholm Provincial Court, Maria Olutter Clang.
“I have acted independently in maintaining enslavement and depriving the freedom of the victims and contributed to trafficking them more.”
The Yazidis are an ancient religious minority that depends largely in the Sinjar region in northern Iraq.
In early August 2014, Yazidi settlements were invaded in the Sinjar area, which launches a group campaign against it.
For three years, about 5,000 Yazidis were killed by ISIS, and half a million people were displaced.
More than 6000 women and their children were taken and held as slaves. Did the members torture their detainees and exposed them to strategic sexual violence aimed at eliminating the Yazidi people? According to the United Nations.
Lina Ishaq was born in Iraq to a Christian family, who moved to Sweden when she was a child, the Swedish media report. She turned into Islam before her marriage.
Along with about 300 other Swedish citizens, a quarter of them womenIsaac joined in 2013.
When the so -called caliphate began to collapse in 2017, Isaac escaped from Raqqa and fled to Türkiye. It was delivered to Sweden in 2020.
Sweden is now home to about 6000 Yazidi.
David Khaleda, head of the Yazidi Association in Scarpurg, said that the prosecution of Isaac helped build confidence between society in Sweden and the local authorities.
“I know that women who were called to interrogate by the Swedish police who did not dare testify for fear of handing them over.” “After this accusation, the image changed.”
The lawyer of Isaac Michael Westerlund said that Isaac still denies the charges and will look at an appeal.
