Woman who kept slaves for ISIS in Syria jailed in Sweden

A woman who kept prisoners captured by ISIS as “slaves” in the period of Syria’s civil war has been jailed for 12 years in a trial of war crimes in Sweden, The National reported on February 11th.

Lina Ishaq, who is 52, held Yazidi women and children as captives in her home after ISIS had launched an attack on their villages and killed their male family members, according to a court in Stockholm.

The court said she forced them into practicing Islam and made them face “various forms of abuse” while calling them “infidels” and “slaves.”

The judges said that Ishaq had ISIS’s inclination to oppress the Yazidi people and “had a strong ideological intent to destroy a religious group.”

The National