“Three repatriated women are charged with promoting terror,” translated from “Tre hjemhentede kvinder er tiltalt for at fremme terror,” Berlingske, November 4, 2022:
The women were housewives and wives in Syria, according to the prosecutor’s office, which wants them convicted of terrorism charges.
Three women, now aged 33, 35 and 38, have all been charged with having traveled to a conflict zone in Syria, where they were stay-at-home housewives and wives of fighters for the Islamic State.
The prosecution wants them convicted of promoting a terrorist organization in this way. The 35-year-old woman can have her case decided in as little as two weeks.
This is stated by the prosecution in a press release on Friday morning.
The three women were all brought home to Denmark from Syria on 7 October last year and have been in custody since.
They were evacuated together with their 14 children in total from the Roj camp in northeastern Syria.
The women traveled without permission to Raqqa province and Deir al-Zour province during a period when the areas were categorized as “conflict areas.”.
“It is our opinion that the women have been an important part of IS in relation to family and practical support for the terrorist organization, which contributed to IS activities in the occupied areas,” says State Attorney Jakob Berger Nielsen, the State Attorney in Viborg, in the press release.
The cases against the two oldest women have been brought by the State Attorney in Viborg, while the third case has been brought by the State Attorney in Copenhagen.
Two of the women only have Danish citizenship, but the 38-year-old has dual citizenship, and therefore the prosecutor’s office is going to take the Danish passport from her and have her deported permanently.
The expectation is that the case against the 35-year-old woman can proceed as a confession case at the Court in Esbjerg. In legal terms, this means that charges will be brought during the hearing if she pleads guilty to the charges.
This case is scheduled for November 18.
The other two cases have been brought as jury trials, where the prosecution is seeking a sentence of at least four years in prison. One is scheduled to begin at the Court in Frederiksberg on April 24 next year.
No dates have yet been set for the third case to be heard at the Court in Kolding.
