The Swedish woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and war crimes against Yazid’s people after she joined the Islamic State of the Jihadist Group (IS) in Syria.
52-year-old Lina Izhak was found guilty of holding three women Yazi and six Yazis as slaves in Rakka from 2014 to 2016 last September.
For the first time, crimes against Yazida, one of the religious minorities of Iraq, were tried in Sweden.
Iskak joined the IS, and moved her family to Syria in 2013. She is already serving his term of imprisonment for delivering her two-year-old son to Syria, and “does not prevents” the use of his 12-year-old son as a child soldier. He died in 2017, 16 years old.
The spark made his prisoners carry the curtain and practice Islam, and she physically attacked them.
“The convicted woman was part of a large-scale seizure system that is introduced for women and children,” said Stockholm’s judge Maria Ulfdotter Klang.
“It acted on its own in maintaining the enslavement and deprivation of the victims and contributed to their further trade.”
Yazida is an ancient religious minority, which is largely based in the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq.
In early August 2014, Yazidi’s settlements in the Sinjar region were invaded against their genocidal campaign.
For three years, about 5,000 yazs were killed and half a million people were moved.
More than 6,000 women and children were captured and kept as slaves. Members tortured their detainees and subjected them to strategic sexual abuse aimed at eradicating the people of Yazi, According to the UN.
Lina Izhak was born in Iraq in a Christian family who moved to Sweden when she was as a child, Swedish media reported. She went into Islam before marriage.
Together with around 300 other Swedish citizens, a quarter of their womenThe sparks joined in 2013.
When the so -called caliphate began to collapse in 2017, Rakka fled and escaped to Turkey. It was extradited to Sweden in 2020.
There are now about 6,000 Yazids in Sweden.
Davud Khalaf, chairman of the Yazidi Association in Skarabaga, said that Persecution was helped to build confidence between the community in Sweden and the local authorities.
“I know the women who were called to the Swedish police interrogation who did not dare to testify, fearing,” he said Public Broadcaster SVT. “After that, the picture changed.”
The lawyer, Mikael Westerlund, said that Ihak still denied the allegations and consider the appeal.
