A Swedish court has found a Swedish woman guilty of war crimes for failing to prevent her 12-year-old son from becoming a child soldier in Syria, where he was killed in the war. The woman had denied the allegations.
“A district court has sentenced Lina Isaac to six years in prison for violating international law and serious war crimes,” Sweden’s district court said today.
“She, as a guardian, did not protect her son Joan, aged 12 to 15, from being recruited by unknown accomplices and being used as a child soldier by the Islamic State in the armed conflict in Syria,” he added.
The 49-year-old woman, a Swedish woman who returned from Syria in 2020, is the first person in Sweden to be accused of complicity in the recruitment of his own child. The boy, who was born in 2001, was killed in 2017.
According to the UN, the recruitment and exploitation of children under the age of 15 as soldiers is prohibited under international humanitarian law and is recognized as a war crime by the International Criminal Court.
Under Swedish law, the country’s courts can try people for crimes committed abroad in violation of international law.
Source: AMPE
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