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She abducted her son to live together in an ISIS-controlled area in Syria

A Swedish court on Monday sentenced a 30-year-old woman to three years in prison for abducted her young son and took him with her to an area of ​​Syria controlled by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist organization.

The 31-year-old Swedish citizen of Palestinian origin left the town of Landskruna (south) in August 2014 with her son, then less than two years old.

The father of the child, with whom they are divorced, had allowed her to take him with her to Turkey for a vacation. At her trial, however, the court was informed that she had crossed from Turkish territory to the Syrian sector, which was then part of the “caliphate” of the Islamic State, without the consent of the boy’s father.

The Lund district court ruled that he had gone to Syria voluntarily and rejected the defense’s argument that he was only planning to pay a brief visit for religious reasons.

The young woman, radicalized long before she left Sweden, claimed that she was being held in Syria against her will, initially members of the IK until the end of 2017, then members of the Kurdish forces in the vast settlement of Al Hall (northwestern Syria).

She got married in Syria a month after arriving in the country. Ahad two daughters with her second husband, a Tunisian IK fighter. Posts he made on the social networking site Facebook prove that he had no intention of ever returning to Sweden, the court clarified.

The reasoning of the decision emphasizes that The woman was well informed about the conflict in Syria and the methods of the IK when she settled in the territories of the “caliphate”. Going to Syria, he deprived the father of any contact with his son.

She escaped from the Al Hall camp last year and was able to move to Turkey with her three children. The Turkish authorities deported her to Sweden.

Swedish justice assigned custody of the boy exclusively to his father in June 2015.

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