\n A court in Sweden on Friday sentenced a mother to six years in jail for allowing her son to fight for the Islamic State (IS) group as a child soldier in Syria.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 49-year-old was convicted of aggravated of war crimes, violations of international law and for \"not stopping her son, then aged 12 to 15, from being recruited and used as a child soldier for IS in the armed conflict in Syria,\" the Stockholm district court said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n
\n The woman and her husband had been part of a \"cult-like\" Islamist environment and in April 2013 she brought her son to join his father and an older son in Syria.\n<\/p>\n
\n The court found that she must have understood that her son was used as a child soldier.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"She has not taken adequate steps to stop this, neither has she wanted to stop it, but his role as a child soldier had been in accordance with her convictions,\" the court said.\n<\/p>\n
\n When she was charged in January, the prosecution authority said it was \"the first time charges are being brought in Sweden for the war crime of using a child soldier\".\n<\/p>\n
\n It also said that from August 2013 and to May of 2016 the boy allegedly took part \"in hostilities performed by armed groups, including the terrorist organisation IS\".\n<\/p>\n
\n The authority added that he died in 2017, without providing the cause of death.\n<\/p>\n
\n Around 300 Swedes or Swedish residents, a quarter of whom are women, joined IS in Syria and Iraq, mostly in 2013 and 2014, according to the Sapo intelligence service.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sweden did not have existing legislation at the time to prosecute people for membership in a terrorist organisation, so prosecutors instead sought other crimes with which to charge returnees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A court in Sweden on Friday sentenced a mother to six years in jail for allowing her son to fight for the Islamic State (IS) group as a child soldier in Syria. The 49-year-old was convicted of aggravated of war crimes, violations of international law and for \"not stopping her son, then aged 12 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-88273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n