Montreal woman convicted of joining ISIS
In what federal prosecutors are describing as a legal first, a 29-year-old Montreal woman was convicted this week of providing support to a terrorist entity through family support as a spouse.
In a communiqué, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) said that Oumaima Chouay was convicted on Monday, July 21 after admitting to travelling to Syria to join the ranks of Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), 'knowing that her expected role would include marrying an ISIS fighter and raising children under the ISIS doctrine.'
The PPSC added, however, that Chouay 'is not suspected of having participated directly in terrorist activities, namely actual combat.'
Joint submissions on sentencing from the prosecution and defence saw Chouay sentenced Monday to one day of custody, in addition to the 110 days she served in pretrial detention, as well as a three-year probation order.
Chouay was also ordered to avoid 'all direct or indirect contact with people and entities associated to extremism,' and she will be required to continue her participation in 'depolarization therapy.'
The PPSC wrote that 'independent psychiatric and psychological experts in the field of terrorism evaluated Chouay's progress over the past 30 and a half months and concluded that the risk of recidivism and dangerousness is very low.' It added that the RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Team 'shared the assessment that she does not present a significant risk to Canadian society.'
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