In a separate statement, the Stockholm District Court said the prosecutor claims the woman detained a number of women and children belonging to the Yazidi ethnic group in her residence in Raqqa, and “allegedly exposed them to, among other things, severe suffering, torture or other inhumane treatment as well as for persecution by depriving them of fundamental rights for cultural, religious and gender reasons contrary to general international law.”
Sweden charging woman with war crimes for allegedly torturing Yazidi women and children in Syria
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The acts were deemed as a serious crime against international law, the court said.
Iranian gets life in prison in Sweden for 1980s crimes
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