{"id":103207,"date":"2026-05-08T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/103207\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:09:08","slug":"islamic-state-linked-australian-women-charged-with-keeping-slave-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/103207\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State-linked Australian women charged with keeping slave in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two Australian women \u201ckept a female slave\u201d after travelling to Syria in 2014 to support Islamic State, police said on Friday after the pair were charged in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The women returned to Australia on Thursday evening for the first time in almost a decade, travelling from a Syrian detention camp where they were stranded after the group\u2019s collapse.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They were immediately arrested after their Qatar Airways flight landed at Melbourne International Airport.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Police accused the women \u2013 a mother and daughter aged 53 and 31 \u2013 of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d while living under Islamic State\u2019s self-declared caliphate.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 53-year-old woman was \u201ccomplicit in the purchase of a female slave for US$10,000\u201d, the Australian Federal Police said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 31-year-old woman had \u201cknowingly kept a female slave in the home\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Australian women \u201ckept a female slave\u201d after travelling to Syria in 2014 to support Islamic State, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1648,34878,949,1721,279,34947,35879,49,1484,95,691],"class_list":{"0":"post-103207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-australian-federal-police","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-crimes-against-humanity","12":"tag-islamic-state","13":"tag-melbourne","14":"tag-melbourne-international-airport","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-qatar-airways","17":"tag-syria","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116536053857328165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}