(NL Times) The sisters Amina E. and Amal E. were convicted by the District Court of Rotterdam on allegations of preparing terrorist acts, and participating with Islamic State (IS). The younger of the two, 25-year-old Amina E., was ordered to serve three and a half years in prison. Amal E., who is now 38 years of age, was jailed for two and a half years.
The crimes detailed by investigators took place between August 2014 and November 2022. The women traveled to Syria via Turkey in 2014 when Amina was only 16 years old. The sisters are among the group of 12 women who were brought back from a detention camp in Syria at the end of 2022.
They were kept there under very difficult conditions, the court acknowledged. “And that’s putting it mildly,” the presiding judge said.
