Lina Ishaq, a 52-year-old Swedish woman, has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for genocide and war crimes against Yazidis in Syria. She enslaved three Yazidi women and six children in Raqqa between 2014 and 2016, forcing them to wear veils, practise Islam, and endure physical abuse. This is Sweden’s first conviction related to IS crimes against Yazidis, a religious minority targeted for extermination. In 2014, IS launched a brutal campaign against them, killing 5,000 and enslaving thousands more. Ishaq, originally from Iraq, moved to Sweden as a child but later converted to Islam and joined IS in 2013. She fled to Turkey after IS collapsed and was extradited to Sweden in 2020. Sweden’s Yazidi community (numbering about 6,000) sees the conviction as a step toward justice, though Ishaq denies the charges and may appeal.