少数派ヤジディー教徒を「奴隷」にした女に禁錮１２年 スウェーデン

【ストックホルムＡＦＰ＝時事】スウェーデンの首都ストックホルムの地方裁判所は１１日、イラク系スウェーデン人の女が、シリア在住時にイラクの少数派ヤジディー教徒の女性・子どもを奴隷として扱ったとして、ジェノサイド（集団殺害）の罪などで１２年の禁錮刑を言い渡した。（写真は、イラク北部シンジャルの村で、イスラム国〈ＩＳ〉による攻撃とその後の戦闘で破壊された建物の近くを歩くヤジディ教徒の子どもたち。資料写真）
　実刑が下されたのは、リナ・イシャク被告（５２）。スウェーデンでキリスト教徒のイラク人家庭に育ち、最初の夫と出会った後、イスラム教に改宗。２０１３年に家族と共にシリアに渡ったが、夫は死亡。１４年に同国北部ラッカで再婚した。
　翌１５年、過激派組織「イスラム国」（ＩＳ）によってイラクからシリアに拉致されて来たヤジディー教徒の女性３人と子ども６人を５か月にわたって監禁し、「所有物」として扱ったとされる。イスラム教の聖典コーランの暗唱を強いたり、「異教徒」「奴隷」といった侮蔑的な言葉を投げ掛けたりしたという。
　地裁はこうした言動について、ジェノサイドのほか、人道に対する罪、戦争犯罪に当たると判断した。
　地裁は、ＩＳによるヤジディー教徒の迫害において「包括的な奴隷化システム」が「重要な要素」の一つとなっていると指摘。被告は「一つの宗教集団を破壊するというＩＳの意図を共有していた」としている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/02/12-18:08）

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.
Accused of keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in Syria in 2015, Lina Ishaq was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, the Stockholm district court said in a statement.
The crimes warranted a sentence of 16 years, but taking a previous sentence into account it ordered her to spend 12 years behind bars, the court said. Prosecutors had demanded a life jail sentence.
The woman, a Swedish citizen, had already been sentenced to six years imprisonment in 2022 for allowing her 12-year-old son to be recruited as an IS child soldier.
Prosecutor Reena Devgun said she was happy with the convictions but she would likely appeal against the sentence.
These are very, very severe crimes, and compared to other Swedish jurisprudence or Swedish sentencing traditions, I do think that there is room for a more severe sentence, she told AFP.
The court said the case concerned nine Yazidi, six of whom were children at the time.
All the plaintiffs were captured by IS in attacks on Kurdish-speaking Yazidi villages that began in August 2014 in Sinjar, Iraq. Their male relatives were executed and thousands of women were taken.
After about five months of captivity, they arrived at Ishaq's home in Raqqa.
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.
- Forced conversion -
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 said.
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 also called the injured parties demeaning invectives such as 'infidels' or 'slaves', the court 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.
Ishaq's lawyer Mikael Westerlund said the woman had not decided whether to appeal, but said they were pleased the court had not handed down a life sentence as requested by the prosecution.
It was important for the prosecution to sentence her for life, he told AFP.
Around 300 Swedes or Swedish residents, a quarter of them women, joined IS in Syria and Iraq, mostly in 2013 and 2014, according to Sweden's intelligence service Sapo.
Ishaq grew up in a Christian Iraqi family in Sweden but converted to Islam after meeting her late husband and Islamist Jiro Mehho, with whom she had six children, in the 1990s.
She travelled to Syria with her children in 2013. Mehho died in August 2013, and Ishaq moved to Raqqa in 2014 and re-married.