- Punishment for acts supporting terrorist organizations. It is not a requirement that you have been a military but it is about your contribution, that you have made use of terrorist organizations, says prosecutor Fredrik Ranke, who has had most of these cases in Norway.

The Norwegian government's decision last week to take home a Norwegian-Pakistani IS woman and her two children, when one of the children needs advanced care, led to the government cracking down on Monday. The Progress Party left the government cooperation, as they did not think that Norway should bring home adults from Syria and Iraq, who joined IS.

When the 29-year-old woman landed in Norway, she was arrested on suspicion of participating in a terrorist organization.

- It has been very important for the government parties that have wanted to bring her home, to emphasize that if she comes to Norway she will be arrested and risk many years in prison. Had we not had this terror law in place, it would probably have been much more difficult to retrieve her, says Olav Døvik, who oversees these issues for NRK.

The woman says she was tricked into Syria by her ex-husband, who was featured in IS recruitment videos. And that she was only locked in a house, cooked and washed clothes.

The Norwegian IS woman can be sentenced to prison

Last year, a Norwegian asylum-seeking woman was sentenced to prison for, inter alia, participation in a terrorist organization after she tried to join IS.

According to Prosecutor Frederik Ranke, it may be that even the current IS woman is sentenced to prison.

- In the first case against a woman in Norway who tried to join the terrorist group, the court considered that women played an important role in the caliphate. The fact that they laid the foundation for male IS recruits to be well utilized at home, increased their motivation to participate at the front and ensured that a new generation of jihadists were born.

International law specialist and lawyer Mads Harlem does not think that domestic activities should be counted as participation in a terrorist organization.

- I cannot comment on this specific case when a preliminary investigation is underway, but it goes without saying that having cooked and taking care of children is not a participation in war actions.

He also believes that the Norwegian terrorist rule goes too far and that only war crimes in armed conflicts should be prosecuted, not participation.

More about the IS returnees in Sunday's Agenda.