Published 4 January 2022 at 18.01
Abroad. Today, a prosecution was brought against a 49-year-old Muslim woman in western Sweden who is suspected of having arranged for her son to be used as a child soldier to fight with IS. It happened from the time the boy was 12 years old until he died in battle when he was 16.
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The woman, who has an Iraqi immigrant background, traveled to Syria with her husband and five children to an IS-controlled area in 2013.
She is now charged with a serious war crime and a serious violation of international law. have been committed between August 2013 and May 2016.
There are two criminal classifications, due to the name in the Swedish legislation being changed in 2014. However, the indictment concerns one and the same act that the 49-year-old is suspected of having participated in – it wants to use children as soldiers in armed combat.
Among the evidence are videos and photos that show how one of the woman's sons, born in 2001, is in a war zone and poses armed with IS soldiers and men who killed. The boy later died in combat, 16 years old.
The woman was arrested for another crime when she landed in Sweden in mid-December 2020. She had then been deported for life by the Kurdish self-government in northeastern Syria. She was detained in Sweden for two weeks first, but was later released. She was then arrested and detained again for current suspicions in September this year.