Sweden: ISIS Women Released

Yesterday, two women and their children were brought back to Sweden from a Kurdish prisoner camp in Syria for ISIS detainees. The women are suspected of having participated in ISIS atrocities (war crimes). While they were taken into custody upon arrival in Sweden, they have already been released as have most of the other ISIS women brought back to Sweden (where they hold Swedish nationality).

The below article from SVT (Swedish State Television) is translated by Fousesquawk.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/misstankta-is-kvinnorna-slappta-pa-fri-fot

Photo caption: Archive image from al-Hol camp in Syria: Photo: Baderkhan Ahmad/AP/TT

Suspected ISIS women released

Updated today 07:36. Published today 07:17

The two women who were taken into custody yesterday, suspected of committing war crimes in collaboration with the terror group, ISIS, have been released, reports Ekot (Swedish Radio). Remain and a preliminary investigation is in progress.

The women were taken into custody yesterday when they landed at Arlanda (Stockholm Airport). They were met by a delegation of, among others, police, social services, and doctors. The women's children were taken in by social services authorities.

The women and children were picked up by a Swedish delegation in NE Syria where they had been in the Kurdish autonomy camp for suspected ISIS members.

Preliminary investigation initiated

A preliminary investigation into war crimes was initiated against the two women on Thursday, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office. The suspicions remain against both women.

Prosecutor Johan Udén at the National Unit Against International and Organized Crime, who is conducting the preliminary investigation into one of the suspected women, would not go into any details about the ongoing investigation.

"There are some measures to be taken. So we will have to agree on a time and see if can proceed or if it should be closed", he says to Ekot.

Third group of women

According to information to SVT Nyheter (Swedish State TV News), the two women are reportedly from western Sweden and Skåne.

This is the third group of women deported from the Kurdish enclave in northeastern Syria. Previously, a total of six women with children have come (back) to Sweden.

Several of the ISIS women who have returned to Sweden are suspected of crimes but continue to be free. Almost all children have also been taken into (Social Services) care according to LVU (Social Services).