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'''Lina Ishaq''' (b. CA. 1973) is an [[Iraq]]i [[Arab]] convert to Islam eho wad convicted of [[genocide]], enslavement, sentenced to 12 years in prison after keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in [[Syria.
Born to a [[Christian]] family in [[Sweden]] but converted to after meeting her late husband and [[Islamism|Islamist]] Jiro Mehho, with whom she had six children, in the 1990s.
In 2013, she travelled to [[Syria]] with her children. After Mehho died in August 2013, she moved to Raqqa in 2014 and remarried.
The Yazidi victims were among thousands of women taken captive, while their male relatives were executed.
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After about five months of captivity, they arrived at Ishaq’s home in Raqqa, Syria. “The woman kept them imprisoned and treated them as her property by holding them as slaves for a period of, in most cases, five months,” the court said.
Their movement was restricted, they were made to perform chores and some were photographed in preparation to be transferred to other people as slaves.
“Given the fact that she participated in the onward transfer of the injured parties, she is also responsible for enabling their continued imprisonment and enslavement,” the court statement added.
Ishaq also forced the Yazidis, who practice their own religion, to “become practising Muslims” by making them recite Koran verses and pray four or five times a day. She called them by “demeaning invectives such as ‘infidels’ or ‘slaves’,” the statement said.
The court stressed “that the comprehensive system of enslavement” was one of “the crucial elements” implemented by IS in “the perpetration of the genocide, the crimes against humanity and gross war crimes that the Yazidi population was subjected to”.
As such, the court said, “the woman shared the IS intent to destroy a religious group”.</blockquote>
==Notes==
*[https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250211-swedish-woman-jailed-for-keeping-yazidi-slaves-in-syria Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria]. [[AFP]], February 11, 2025.
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/11/swedish-woman-convicted-of-genocide-lina-ishaq-war-crimes/ Swedish woman convicted on genocide charges]. ''Daily Telegraph'', February 11, 2025.
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'''Lina Ishaq''' (b. CA. 1973) is an [[Iraq]]i [[Arab]] convert to Islam eho wad convicted of [[genocide]], enslavement, sentenced to 12 years in prison after keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in [[Syria.
Born to a [[Christian]] family in [[Sweden]] but converted to after meeting her late husband and [[Islamism|Islamist]] Jiro Mehho, with whom she had six children, in the 1990s.
In 2013, she travelled to [[Syria]] with her children. After Mehho died in August 2013, she moved to Raqqa in 2014 and remarried.
The Yazidi victims were among thousands of women taken captive, while their male relatives were executed.
<blockquote>
After about five months of captivity, they arrived at Ishaq’s home in Raqqa, Syria. “The woman kept them imprisoned and treated them as her property by holding them as slaves for a period of, in most cases, five months,” the court said.
Their movement was restricted, they were made to perform chores and some were photographed in preparation to be transferred to other people as slaves.
“Given the fact that she participated in the onward transfer of the injured parties, she is also responsible for enabling their continued imprisonment and enslavement,” the court statement added.
Ishaq also forced the Yazidis, who practice their own religion, to “become practising Muslims” by making them recite Koran verses and pray four or five times a day. She called them by “demeaning invectives such as ‘infidels’ or ‘slaves’,” the statement said.
The court stressed “that the comprehensive system of enslavement” was one of “the crucial elements” implemented by IS in “the perpetration of the genocide, the crimes against humanity and gross war crimes that the Yazidi population was subjected to”.
As such, the court said, “the woman shared the IS intent to destroy a religious group”.</blockquote>
==Notes==
*[https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250211-swedish-woman-jailed-for-keeping-yazidi-slaves-in-syria Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria]. [[AFP]], February 11, 2025.
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/11/swedish-woman-convicted-of-genocide-lina-ishaq-war-crimes/ Swedish woman convicted on genocide charges]. ''Daily Telegraph'', February 11, 2025.