Swedish is guilty of massacre for woman
A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 -year prison for a genocide and war crime against Yazidi people after joining the Jihadi Group Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
52-year-old Leena Ishaq was found guilty of holding three Yazidi women and six Yazidi children as slaves in Raqka between 2014-2016 in September last year.
This is the first time that one of the religious minorities of Iraq is a crime against Yazidis, an attempt in Sweden.
He joined Ishaq and in 2013 his family was taken to Syria. She is already serving a prison sentence to take her two -year -old son to Syria and “failed to stop” is from using her 12 -year -old son as a child soldier. He died in 2017, 16 years of age.
Ishaq forced his prisoners to wear veil and practice Islam, and they physically assaulted them.
“The guilty woman was part of a massive slave system, which was introduced to women and children,” said Maria Ulphsdotter Clang, who presided over the Stockholm District Court, said, “the guilty woman was introduced to women and children.”
“He has independently worked in maintaining the slavery and lack of freedom of the victims and contributed to them to more smuggling.”
Yazidis is an ancient religious minority located in the Sinjar region of North Iraq on a large scale.
In early August 2014, Yazidi settlements were attacked in the Sinjar region, starting a massacre campaign against them.
About 5,000 Yazidis were killed by IS and half a million people were displaced over a period of three years.
More than 6,000 women and children were taken captive and kept as slaves. Have members harassed their prisoners and subjected them to strategic sexual violence to erase Yazidi people, United nations according to,
Leena Ishaq was born in a Christian family in Iraq, who moved to Sweden, when she was a child, Swedish media report. She turned into Islam before her marriage.
With 300 other Swedish citizens, one fourth of them womenIshaq joined in 2013.
When it is so -called, the Khalifa started collapsing in 2017, Ishaq ran away and Türkiye fled. In 2020, he was extradited in Sweden.
Sweden is now home to around 6,000 Yazidis.
Dawood Khalf, president of the Yazidi Association in Scarburg, has said that Ishaq’s prosecution has helped to build confidence between the Sweden and the local authorities.
“I know women who have been called by the Swedish police for questioning, who have not dared to testify for fear of handing over to IS,” he told public broadcaster SVT. “After this prosecution, the picture has changed.”
Ishaq’s lawyer Mikel Westralland said Ishaq has still denied the allegations and would consider the appeal.
