A Swedish court has sentenced a woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges for keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in Syria, in the country’s first court case over crimes committed by the ISIL (ISIS) group against the minority.
The 52-year-old Swedish citizen, Lina Ishaq, was convicted of “genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes” in 2015, the court said on Tuesday in a statement. It noted that her actions were part of a broader ISIL campaign against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority.
