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BEFORE THE CONVERSION: Here’s the woman from Trøndelag, now 33, photographed in the summer of 2008, at least two years before she likely discovered Islam in Egypt. In 2014, he traveled to Syria. Photo: Private
The mother of an ethnic Norwegian IS woman begs the Norwegian authorities to visit her in the Syrian camp.
– Her life and survival is entirely in the facilities of other women of the Islamic State or other people in the countryside. She told me: “Mom, you know I will never say out loud that I want to go home.”.
Here’s what the mother of a 33-year-old Norwegian woman from Trøndelag says. The woman traveled to Syria in 2014. Last year, the mother told for the first time about her daughter who traveled to the Islamic State (IS).
– She is still in a tent in al-Hol, where she has been since March last year. I am often not sure if she is free to say and say what she really wants and wants.
– Do you feel unsafe there?
– It varies, but sometimes I understand from her that she is very scared. She says that the women have been stoned, she says that they kill each other in the camp and that on one occasion she has been the victim of violence herself.
Mother of an ethnic Norwegian woman IS: He fears his daughter will be subjected to torture in a Syrian camp
CONCERNED: The mother of the Norwegian Islamic State woman fears for her daughter’s safety in the Syrian camp. Photo: Kristian Helgesen
Ask the authorities for help
– I wish the Norwegian authorities could investigate what my daughter really wants and if she is free to say and say what she wants. Time is running out.
– Does your daughter want to be informed about consular assistance?
– When I mentioned a lawyer and foreign service, she replied that she should consult with the “sisters”. My feeling is that it is not my daughter, but others, who really define what is going to happen to her and what kind of information she should listen to.
Conditions in al-Hol camp have become even more dangerous in recent months. Recently, the head of the camps where IS women are being held confirmed that a large number of foreign women will be forcibly removed from al-Hol, as a security measure.
Three Norwegian women, who have a total of three children who can obtain Norwegian citizenship, have been detained in al-Hol in the past year. If they are transferred together with other foreign women, according to VG’s information, according to the plan, they will be sent to the Roj camp, where there is already a Norwegian woman with a child.
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International law expert Mads Harlem and lawyer Nils Christian Nordhus, who worked to bring home a Norwegian Islamic State woman and her two children in January, will now help Save the Children help more Norwegian women and children in Syria. .
Save the Children and lawyers believe that Norwegian Islamic State women are not free to ask for “consular assistance”, as conditions in the camp are so extreme. Norwegian aid organizations, the UN and the Kurdish self-government authorities have repeatedly called on the Norwegian government over the past year to bring Norwegian children home.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has indicated that while none of the Norwegian women of the Islamic State have requested consular assistance, they will not be contacted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
BACKGROUND: These are the remaining ISIS women and their children
I need help from others
– My daughter is so hurt that she will not survive without the help of others. It is impossible for her to go to the place for food distribution, and the fact that she is not bony also prevents her from receiving money from us here, says the mother of the ethnic Norwegian woman.
When her tent was about to flood this winter, she survived by having children who managed to drain a ditch around the tent that could remove much of the water, she continues.
Converts from Trøndelag
The Norwegian IS woman is one of three Norwegian friends who converted to Islam and left Nord-Trøndelag for IS. Her Norwegian husband was killed in the Syrian war zone. The couple’s mutual friend, Kristian Michelsen, also went to the IS area, but later left IS and escaped from Syria to Turkey. He was transferred to Norway and convicted of terrorism.
Islamic State women run the risk of criminal prosecution upon return to Norway, the Police Security Service (PST) has told VG, and the woman’s mother has made it clear that the daughter must be responsible for what she does. has done.
