A Swede was found guilty of war crimes by a court in Sweden because she failed to prevent her 12-year-old son from entering ISIS and become a child soldier in Syria, where he was killed in the war.
The woman had denied the allegations. “The district court sentenced Lina Isak to six years in prison for violating international law and a serious war crime,” the Swedish district court announced on Friday (4/3), APE-MPE reports.
“She, as a guardian, did not protect her son Joan, aged 12 to 15, from being recruited by unknown accomplices and to be used as a child soldier by the Islamic State in the armed conflict in Syria “he added.
He is the first person to be charged with recruiting the child himself
The 49-year-old woman, a Swede who returned from Syria in 2020, is the first person in Sweden to be charged with complicity in the recruitment of the child himself.
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 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.
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Source: News Beast
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