Swedish IS women and children fly to Sweden

According to information to SVT, the first three Swedish women with eight children have left the IS camp to be flown to Sweden.

A total of 26 children will be received, but how many of the 18 Swedish women who will be in the camps will be deported is unclear.

Most of them have lived with IS for a long time and several of their children have been born with the terrorist sect.

The Kurdish self-government, which has long wanted Sweden to take home the Swedish IS prisoners, believes that there is not enough evidence to prosecute the women.

In June, therefore, the decision was made that the women should be deported.

Will be met by police

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden has an obligation to receive Swedish citizens who cannot be prosecuted.

The women who are now deported must be received in an organized manner in the same way.

Everyone will land at Arlanda in Stockholm, regardless of where in the country they come from.

There, they will be met by a team including the police, migration agencies, medical staff and social services.

The women will then immediately be heard by the police and investigated for war crimes.

The war crimes group at the Police's National Operations Division, NOA, has extensive international cooperation with EU bodies, Europol, Interpol and authorities in other countries.

Not illegal to join

But investigating what these women have really done at IS has proved very difficult.

Unlike men, women have mostly lived at home, and they have not been photographed and filmed in the same way as men did when they committed crimes.

Last year, contact with terrorist organizations was banned under new legislation. At the time when the women joined IS and lived there, there was nothing illegal in Sweden.

It is not known whether any Swedish woman will be allowed to remain pending legal action in Syria.

Two of the women are said to have hidden in the Al-Hol camp and do not want to go to Sweden.

In connection with the deportations, it will also be investigated whether the women's children should be taken into care.

One year ago, five Swedish IS women were deported from Turkey and Syria, along with a total of ten children.

After that, all children have been forcibly taken into care according to LVU, the law with special provisions on the care of young people.

Many have been smuggled out

Today, the Kurds in northeastern Syria hold about 11,000 IS prisoners of war from around the world.

Of these, 18 will be Swedish women, of which ten are from western Sweden, and 26 children.

Those who have sat the longest have done so for over four years.

But a large part of the Swedish IS women have already come out in other ways.

The smuggling activities around the camps have been extensive and in recent years no less than 13 Swedish women have managed to escape.

Most have come to Sweden, but some have also gone to Idlib in northwestern Syria, where today there are several Europeans who have joined IS, including a group of Swedish women.

The question of what will happen to the Swedish IS men is still unclear.