A 52-year-old Swedish woman who joined Isis in Syria has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for genocide and war crimes by a Stockholm court. Lina Ishaq, 52, was found guilty of enslaving three Yazidi women and six Yazidi children in Raqqa (Syria) between 2014 and 2016. This is the first time that crimes committed by Isis against Yazidis, one of Iraq’s religious minorities, have been tried in Sweden. Ishaq forced his captives to wear headscarves and practise Islam by physically assaulting them. Ishaq had moved his family to Syria in 2013 and is already serving time for taking his son to Syria and failing to prevent Isis from using him as a child soldier: his son died in 2017, aged 16.
