The woman has been
imprisoned in Iraq since autumn when she was convicted of entering the country
illegally. In October, a Baghdad court acquited her on allegations that she
belonged to Isis due to lack of evidence, but that ruling has now been
overturned and she faces 15 years imprisonment, according to reports by Swedish
broadcasters SVT and TV4.
Those media reports
were confirmed by the Swedish Foreign Ministry on Sunday. “We can confirm that
she has been convicted of co-operating with Isis, but beyond that we have no
comment,” ministry press officer Sofia Naring Bauer told TT. Bauer declined to
say whether the case would be appealed.
The 29-year-old woman
had previously told interrogators she had come to Iraq with her husband and
their three children, now aged five, four and three. She said her husband had
been killed in 2016 during the bombing of Tal Afar, near Mosul in the north of
the country.
She has claimed that
she has never personally supported Isis nor sympathizes with its views. The
Iraqi court, however, found that there was ample evidence that the woman knew
what she was doing and that she had come to Iraq with the express purpose of
joining Isis.
Her case marks the
first time that a Swede has been sentenced under Iraq's anti-terrorism law,
under which courts can sentence to death anyone found guilty of belonging to
Isis, including non-combatants.
Also on Sunday, an
Iraqi court sentenced three French citizens to death after they were found
guilty of joining Isis.
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