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3 Australian women back from Syria face slavery and terrorism charges over alleged IS links

The Independent·Rod McGuirk·25 days ago
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Three Australian women were charged on Friday with slavery and terrorism offenses after they arrived home from Syria with another 10 others whom police allege are linked to the Islamic State group. The four women and nine children, who have spent years in Roj Camp in the Syrian desert, landed on two Qatar Airways flights from Doha on Thursday despite the Australian government warning they would face charges if they returned. Kawsar Abbas , 53, and her daughter Zeinab Ahmed, 31, were charged in a Melbourne court on Friday in relation to allegations that their family bought a female Yazidi slave for $10,000, police said a statement on Friday. Their lawyers said they would apply for both women to be released on bail on Monday. Abbas, her husband and children traveled in 2014 to Syria, which was then the center of IS’s co-called caliphate, police allege. Abbas was complicit in buying the slave, who was kept in the family home, police allege.…

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