(NL Times) A female outbound traveler who was brought back from Syria with the help of the United States last May will appear in court for the first time on Thursday. The Public Prosecution Service is prosecuting 47-year-old Ayada K. for a war crime.
The Public Prosecution Service suspects her of being complicit in the recruitment and deployment of her son in the armed struggle for the terrorist group Islamic State (IS). The boy was younger than 15 at the time. “It is a war crime to recruit children under the age of 15 for military service and to use such child soldiers in combat,” said a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service.
The boy is believed to have eventually died in 2017 in fighting near the city of Raqqa, then the capital of the IS-proclaimed caliphate in northern Syria.
