Melbourne, Australia — Melbourne, Australia (AP) – three australian women When they arrived home from Syria with 10 other people who police allege are linked to the Islamic State group, they were refused bail when they appeared in courts on Friday charged with slavery and terrorism offences.
The four women and nine children who spent years Rose Camp Despite the Australian government, two Qatar Airways flights from Doha landed in the Syrian desert on Thursday warned that he would face charges If they return.
Kawsar Abbas, 53, and his daughter Zainab Ahmed, 31, were charged in a Melbourne court on charges their family bought a female Yazidi slave for $10,000, police said in a statement.
Their lawyers said they would apply for the release of both women on bail on Monday. Neither woman spoke during their brief appearance in court. Bail was formally refused.
Police allege Abbas, her husband and children traveled to Syria, then the center of IS’s co-called caliphate, in 2014.
Police allege that Abbas was complicit in purchasing Ghulam, who was kept in the family home.
The mother was charged with four crimes against humanity under Australian law, and the daughter was charged with two slavery crimes. Each charge carries a possible sentence of 25 years in prison.
Both women were detained by Kurdish forces in March 2019 and have since been held in the Rose camp along with other family members.
The camp in northeastern Syria, near the Iraq border, houses mostly women and children displaced from areas once under the control of the Islamic State group.
Janai Safar, 32, was arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with being a member of a terrorist organization and entering or remaining in an area controlled by a terrorist organization. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
When she applied for bail in a Sydney court on Friday, where she appeared via video link from jail, a judge refused to release her.
Her lawyer unsuccessfully argued that the exceptional circumstances of her case required her to be released from custody. The lawyer submitted that both Safar and his 9-year-old son were possibly victims of ptsd And the boy didn’t know anyone else in Australia.
Police allege that she followed her IS-fighter partner to Syria in 2015 and had a child there. The partner reportedly died in 2017. australia made it illegal Traveling to Raqqa, the former Syrian Islamic State group stronghold, without valid reason from 2014 to 2017.
The Australian government has condemned women for supporting Islamic State militants by traveling to Syria and refused to help repatriate them.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday he had sympathy for returned children, but not for parents who cannot expect any government assistance.
“I have no sympathy for these people,” Albanese told reporters. “I sympathize with children who are victims of their parents’ decisions.”
“It is right that they be given assistance: children who have been subjected to and exposed to all kinds of horrors in those camps,” Albanese said.
Police have been investigating the possible involvement of Australians in atrocities in Syria for more than a decade.
Another 21 Australian women and children remain in the Rose camp. His supporters have told reporters that they intend to bring him back within a few weeks.
One of those women has been banned from returning to Australia by a temporary exclusion order.
Australia could use such orders to prevent high-risk citizens from returning for up to two years.
The orders were created by laws introduced in 2019 to prevent defeated IS fighters returning to Australia. There is no public report of any order being issued before this.
Such orders cannot be given against children below 14 years of age. But Australia has refused to separate the children from their mother.
Australian governments have Australian sent home Women and children from Syrian detention camps on two occasions. Other Australians have returned without government assistance.
