Sweden charges a woman with war crimes for allegedly torturing Yazidi women and children in Syria

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/sweden-charges-a-woman-with-war-crimes-for-allegedly-torturing-yazidi-women-and-children-in-syria-1.7043982

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  1. > Swedish authorities on Thursday charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria

    > Lina Laina Ishaq, who’s a Swedish citizen, allegedly committed the crimes from August 2014 to December 2016, in Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the self-proclaimed IS caliphate and home to about 300,000 people.

    > In 2017, when the Islamic State’s reign began to collapse, she fled from Raqqa and was captured by Syrian Kurdish troops. She managed to escape to Turkey where she was arrested with her son and two other children, she had given birth to in the meantime, with an IS foreign fighter from Tunisia. She was extradited from Turkey to Sweden.

  2. How is it that literal terrorist torturers can easily get a Swedish citizenship but an educated person trying to immigrate has very little chance making it on?

  3. LupusDeusMagnus on

    She lived in Sweden, as a citizen, then decided to go to the Middle East to join a group that is probably just like the group that caused hundreds of thousand to leave the Middle East for Europe, partook on some genocide while on there when joining a group that desired the murder of her neighbours, when her cult got defeated she escaped to another Middle Eastern country only to be extradited to her country of citizenship and now will have the honour to be the first person in Sweden to be trialed for such horrendous crimes.

    I don’t know what exactly passes on the mind of those people. I’m from a country with a lot of social problems and some parts of the country have lots of criminal organisations, but like people who join them literally live in awful conditions, abandoned by society… and in places controlled by said organisations. For them it’s either join and maybe get rich but likely die fighting another group for drug and weapon dealing profit or live a life of hopeless misery and maybe die in the crosshairs.

    People don’t go come from another continent to join them, nor they plan to kill their neighbours. How can you hate humans so much that you’d leave everything behind just so you can kill and torture people?

    She’s like someone who wins the lottery and decides to waste it all on drugs and booze, except she also committed genocide with the money she won.

  4. Count-Elderberry36 on

    Completely hypocritical. These go on and on about disgusting the west is but then they go and flee there for asylum or general immigration

  5. I have said this before, but if someone wants to leave your country to join and aid a group that is officially the enemy of that country…. Why should they be allowed back? If I’m understanding correctly, she left Sweden to join Daesh, then came back when she decided she wanted modern comforts again.