STOCKHOLM: A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country´s first court case over crimes committed by the Islamic State (IS) group against the Yazidi minority.

Accused of keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in Syria in the winter and spring of 2015, Lina Ishaq was convicted of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” as well as war crimes, the court said in a statement.

The court in Stockholm said her crimes warranted a sentence of 16 years, but taking a previous sentence into account set the sentence to 12.

The woman, who is a Swedish citizen, was in jail having already been sentenced by a Swedish court to six years in prison in 2022 for allowing her 12-year-old son to be recruited as an IS child soldier.

The court said on Tuesday´s case concerned nine injured parties, six of whom were children at the time.

All the plaintiffs had been captured by IS in a series of attacks on Yazidi villages that began in August 2014 in Sinjar, Iraq, and their male relatives had been executed.