<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Swedish prosecutors on Thursday said they had asked a Stockholm court to remand in custody a 51-year-old woman suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Yazidis in Syria.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The woman, who has been active in the Daesh group since around 2000, was sentenced by a Swedish court to six years in prison in 2022 for making it possible for her 12-year-old son to be recruited as a child soldier for Daesh, Swedish Radio reported.</div><div><br></div><div>She is now suspected of crimes against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority in 2014-2016 in Raqqa, then the capital of Daesh in Syria.</div><div><br></div><div>“The investigation concerns events in Raqqa, Syria from August 2014 to December 2016,” prosecutor Reena Devgun said in a statement from the Prosecution Authority.</div><div><br></div><div>She provided no other details of the alleged crimes.</div><div><br></div><div>In her 2022 conviction, the woman was also found guilty of aggravated war crimes and aggravated crimes against international law, Swedish Radio said.</div><div><br></div><div>Sweden’s principle of universal jurisdiction allows it to try a case regardless of where the offenses took place. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>