A Swedish woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocidal and military crimes against the people of Yazida after she joined the Jihadist Group of Islamic State (Isa) in Syria.
52-year-old Lina Ishak was found guilty of holding three Yazid women and six Yazida children as slaves in Rakka between 2014-2016 in September last year.
For the first time, there are crimes against Yazidis, one of the religious minorities in Iraq, were tried in Sweden.
Ishak joined the IS and moved her family to Syria in 2013. She is already serving prison for taking her two-year-old son in Syria and “failing to prevent” is to use her 12-year-old son as a child soldier S He died in 2017, 16 years old.
Ishak forced his prisoners to carry a veil and practice Islam, and she physically attacked them.
“The condemned woman was part of the large -scale enslavement system that is being introduced for women and children of Yazid,” said the chairman of the District Court in Stockholm Maria Wolfsdoter Klang.
“It has acted independently in maintaining the enslavement and deprivation of the victims and contributes to their more trafficking.”
Yazid is an ancient religious minority, largely founded in the region of Sinjar in northern Iraq.
In early August 2014, Yazidi settlements were invading in the region of Sinjar, launching a genocidal campaign against them.
For three years, about 5,000 yazids were killed by the IS and half a million people were displaced.
More than 6,000 women and children were captured and held as slaves. Do the members of their detainees are tormented and subjected them to strategic sexual abuse aimed at eradicating the people of Yazidi, According to the UNS
Lina Ichaak was born in Iraq in a Christian family who moved to Sweden when she was a child, a Swedish media report. It became Islam before her marriage.
Along with around 300 other Swedish citizens, a quarter of them womenIshaq joined in 2013
When the so -called Kalifat began to collapse in 2017, Ishak escaped from RAQQA and fled to Turkey. It was extradited to Sweden in 2020.
Sweden is now home to about 6,000 yazids.
Dawood Khalaf, chairman of the Jazidarg Yazid Association, said the ISHAQ prosecutor's office has helped build trust between the community in Sweden and the local authorities.
“I know women who have been called to question the Swedish police who have not dared to testify to fear of being handed over to the IS,” he told the public television operator SVT. “Then the accusation the picture has changed.”
Ishak's lawyer Michael Westerlund has said that Ishak is still denied the allegations and will consider a complaint.