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Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria

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Lina Ishaq, a Swedish citizen, was found guilty of holding Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria. The court convicted her of genocide, crimes against humanity, and serious war crimes, sentencing her to 12 years in prison. This is the first case in Sweden to address IS crimes against the Yazidi minority. Ishaq was already serving a jail sentence for taking her toddler son to Syria.

  1. SE
    Stockholm District Court
    1. To exercise the powers attaching to right of ownership over another human being is a tremendous violation of the integrity of that person, as it deprives the person of their human dignity.
    2. The woman kept them imprisoned and treated them as her property by holding them as slaves for a period of, in most cases, five months.
    3. The crimes do not only constitute an exceptionally serious violation of the life and integrity of specific individuals, but also of fundamental human values and humanity.
  2. SE
    Maria Ulfsdotter Klang
    Stockholm District Court
    1. She has acted independently in maintaining the enslavement and deprivation of liberty of the victims and contributed to trafficking them further.
    2. The convicted woman was part of the large-scale enslavement system which IS introduced for Yazidi women and children.
  3. SE
    Dawood Khalaf
    Yazidi
    1. I know women who have been called for questioning by Swedish police who have not dared to testify for fear of being handed over to IS.

Yazidi under the Islamic State

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sources

  1. 1.BBC
  2. 2.Al Jazeera
  3. 3.CNN
  4. 4.SVT

perspectives

  1. 1.US Foreign Policy
  2. 2.Israel-Palestine Conflict
  3. 3.Israel Foreign Policy
  4. 4.Islamic Terrorism
  5. 5.Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu
  6. 6.2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
  7. 7.Syrian War Aftermath
  8. 8.Hostage(s)
  9. 9.Slavery

countries

  1. 1.GermanyDE
  2. 2.IraqIQ
  3. 3.SwedenSE
  4. 4.Syrian Arab RepublicSY
  5. 5.TurkeyTR

organizations

  1. 1.Yazidi
  2. 2.Stockholm District CourtSE
  3. 3.ISIS-K
  4. 4.International Court of Justice
  5. 5.ISIL
  6. 6.Islamic State
  7. 7.Säpo
  8. 8.United Nations

persons

  1. 1.Lina Ishaq
  2. 2.Angela Dewan
  3. 3.Dawood KhalafSE
  4. 4.Mikael Westerlund
  5. 5.Mohammed Tawfeeq
  6. 6.Muqtada Al-sadr
  7. 7.Nick Paton Walsh
  8. 8.Paul Rhys

technicals

  1. 1.Islam
  2. 2.Christianity
  3. 3.Kurdistan Region
  4. 4.Ottoman Empire