Published 26 January 2024 at 15.29
Domestic. A prosecutor in Stockgolm has requested the 51-year-old IS woman Lina Ishaq be detained on suspicion of genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes.
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– The investigation concerns events in Raqqa, Syria from August 2014 to December 2016. The woman is suspected of having committed acts against the Yazidi minority, says prosecutor Reena Devgun, who leads the preliminary investigation, in a press release.
Lina Ishaq is already serving a six-year sentence for serious crimes against humanity and serious war crimes. This after taking his 12-year-old son to an IS-controlled area in Syria where he was used as a child soldier for the terrorist organization and later died in battle, aged 16.
Among the evidence in that case were videos and photos that showed how the son posed armed with IS soldiers and men who had been killed.
Also the husband and two more of her children died in Syria.
Lina Ishaq, who has an Iraqi immigrant background, traveled with her husband and five children to the IS-controlled area in 2013.
She was arrested for other crimes when she landed in Sweden in mid-December 2020. She had then been deported for life by the Kurdish self-government in northeastern Syria.