The court at Schiphol has sentenced Hasna A., who traveled to Syria, to ten years in prison for participating in a terrorist organization and committing acts of slavery. The Public Prosecution Service had initially demanded an eight-year sentence for using two Yazidi women as household slaves, but the court found proof in one case.
This marks the first prosecution in the Netherlands for a crime against the Yazidis, a religious and ethnic Kurdish minority. A. has consistently denied the charges.
In 2015, A. traveled to Syria with her four-year-old son to join the terrorist organization IS, expressing a desire to build a new life in the caliphate. She married an IS fighter, had three more children, and eventually divorced him.
The prosecution also accused her of endangering her four-year-old son by bringing him to Syria, where he could not attend school.
Source: NOS