Jihadist group Islamic State killed about 5,000 Yazidis and enslaved thousands more A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and war crimes against the Yazidi people after she joined jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.

A Swedish court has sentenced a woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges – in the country’s first criminal case over Islamic State’s persecution of Yazidis...

A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for committing genocide and war crimes against the Yazidi people after joining the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria. Lina Ishaq,

The woman, identified as 52-year-old Swedish citizen Lina Ishaq, returned to Sweden in 2020 and is currently serving time for other offences committed in Syria.

Lina Ishaq, 52, a Swedish citizen, was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity as well as war crimes. The court says her crimes warranted a sentence of 16 years, but taking a previous sentence into account set the sentence to 12 years.

A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria while she was a member of Islamic State.View on euronews

A woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria, during the rule of the terror group ISIS was on Tuesday jailed by a Swedish court on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes.