Swedish member of Islamic State found guilty of genocide against Yazidis

A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria while she was a member of Islamic State.

A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing “genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes” towards Yazidi people in Syria after she had joined the terror group Islamic State (IS).

The 52-year-old Swedish citizen Lina Ishaq was found guilty of enslaving three women and six children for months. She also physically abused them and forced them to practice Islam.

She was convicted of “genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes”, a Swedish court said on Tuesday. She was already serving a 6-year sentence for taking her then 12-year-old son to Syria and allowing him to be recruited as an IS soldier. He died in battle aged 16.

Ishaq is accused of committing the crimes during the period from August 2014 to December 2016 in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which at the time was the seat of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate and home to about 300,000 people.

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