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Four Dutch women, repatriated from camps in NE Syria, receive a prison sentence of between 30 and 36 months for their involvement with ISIS
2023-04-16
More on this story from two days ago, now with names! Or partial names, anyway.
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A Dutch court sentenced four Dutch women on charges of being involved with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems...
 (ISIS), and engaging in preparatory acts for "terrorist" crimes in Syria or Iraq from 2013 onwards.

On April 13, the women were sentenced to between 30 and 36 months in prison, with 12 to 15 months of probation, ANP reported.

The women and kiddies were removed from Roj camp, in the far northeastern Syria, in February 2022 to face prosecution over their possible involvement with ISIS, the report added.

Roj camp is one of the camps in northeast Syria that house thousands of people, including many foreign nationals, since the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS declared the territorial defeat of the terror group in March 2019.

It currently houses 806 families, including 2,800 individuals of Arabs and foreigners, mostly women and kiddies of ISIS family members from 62 countries, according to a previous report published by North Press.
The names, as much as we are permitted to know. This strikes me as being overly punctilious, in that the purpose of giving only partial names is to protect those who will turn out to be innocent. These ladies, however, have been adjudged guilty and sentenced, so there is no reputation left to protect:
The 32-year-old Meryem S, the 37-year-old Nawal H, the 31-year-old Hafida H, and the 27-year-old Amber K were sentenced to prison.

The court also said Nawal H. was also found guilty of leaving her three children neglected in a desperate situation.

The court indicated that the women were fully aware of the ongoing conflict, as they joined the terrorist group and traveled to ISIS-held regions. Their husbands were also active ISIS bad boys, according to the court.

The court said that it reduced the period of sentences to less than four years, the terms which were demanded by the Public Prosecution Service (OM), because the women "explicitly renounced the ISIS ideology," and taking into account the time they spent in the camp.

On Nov. 2, 2022, the government of Netherlands announced repatriating nationals of ISIS family members from camps in northeastern Syria, so they could face prosecution over their possible involvement with ISIS.

ISIS lost its final stronghold in Syria in March 2019. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, defeated ISIS after fierce battles in the town of Baghouz in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist ISIS.

After Baghouz, thousands of ISIS fighters were transferred to prisons, while their families were transferred to Hawl and Roj camps in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)-held areas.
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