Australian Women Charged with Slavery Offenses in Syria
Two Australian women who joined ISIS in Syria have been charged with allegedly keeping a female slave. They returned to Australia after nearly a decade and were arrested upon arrival.
Two Australian women “kept a female slave” after travelling to Syria in 2014 to support Islamic State, police said on Friday after the pair were charged in Melbourne. 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’s collapse. They were immediately arrested after their Qatar Airways flight landed at Melbourne International Airport. Police accused the women – a mother and...