Woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Syria jailed by Swedish court
CNN — A woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria, during the rule of the terror group ISIS was on Tuesday jailed by a Swedish court on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes.Six children and three women from the ethnic and religious Yazidi group were kept imprisoned by the woman for months in 2015, the Stockholm District Court said in a statement. The woman was not named by the court.While being held as slaves, the victims were forced to participate in Islamic religious practices, forbidden to observe their own religion and culture, and ordered to perform domestic chores, the court said. Some of the victims were also “assaulted and molested,” it added.ISIS considered Raqqa the capital of its self-proclaimed “caliphate,” seizing the city in 2014. Raqqa’s national hospital and stadium were turned into ISIS headquarters, and public executions were carried out in the city’s main square.ISIS killed and enslaved hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Yazidis, capturing the women and children and murdering the men.11 January 2023, Rhineland-Palatinate, Koblenz: The 37-year-old defendant (M) stands between her lawyers in the courtroom of the Higher Regional Court. She is accused of keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave and committing other crimes. The trial against the alleged IS supporter began on Wednesday at the Koblenz Higher Regional Court. (To dpa “Trial begins against suspected IS supporter and slave owner”) Photo: Thomas Frey/dpa (Photo by Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)Related articleGerman mother who joined ISIS is jailed for enslaving and abusing young Yazidi womanThe group victimized by the woman sentenced on Tuesday were taken captive in August 2014, Stockholm District Court said, after ISIS carried out attacks on Yazidi villages in Northern Iraq’s Sinjar district. Their male relatives were killed in the attacks, the court said.
