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| Swedish woman jailed for war crimes over son becoming child soldier in Syria | |
| 2022-03-05 | |
A Swedish court found a Swedish woman guilty of war crimes for failing to prevent her 12-year-old son from becoming a child soldier in Syria, where he was killed in the civil war. The woman has denied the charges. “The district court sentences Lina Ishaq to six years in prison for grave violation of international law and grave war crime,” the Stockholm district court said on Friday. “She, in her capacity as protection guarantor, omitted to prevent her son Joan, 12-15 years, from being recruited by unknown accomplices and used as child soldier on behalf of ISIS in the armed conflict in Syria,” it said in the verdict. The 49-year-old woman, a Swede who returned from Syria in 2020, is the first person known to have been charged in Sweden with aiding the recruitment of her own minor son as a child soldier. The boy, born in 2001, died in 2017. Read the rest at the link
Around 300 Swedes or Swedish residents, a quarter of whom are women, joined IS in Syria and Iraq, mostly in 2013 and 2014, according to the Sapo intelligence service. Sweden did not have existing legislation at the time to prosecute people for membership in a terrorist organization, so prosecutors instead sought other crimes with which to charge returnees. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 “She, in her capacity as protection guarantor, omitted to prevent her son Joan, 12-15 years, from being recruited by unknown accomplices and used as child soldier on behalf of ISIS in the armed conflict in Syria,” Now apply that to our Moms in the hood. See - gentle giant, turning his life around, etc |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-03-05 20:23 |
| #2 Now that's the way to go! |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-03-05 09:49 |
| #1 All the "inclusion" and "accommodation" along the way certainly made the world a better, happier place. /spit |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-05 05:59 |