Great angst on the British side of the world.
[Rudaw] The United Kingdom’s refusal to repatriate British nationals believed to be associated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) - and actively stripping the citizenship of at least 19 Brits stranded in northeast Syria - poses a serious security risk, a cross-party group of MPs and peers concluded in a report published on Thursday. The highly critical report recommends that Britannia immediately repatriates its citizens, regardless of gender or age, in stark contrast to the government’s current approach.
Eight months after the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Trafficked Britons in Syria launched their inquiry, hearing from a range of experts including former security officials, human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
organizations including Human Rights Watch and Save the Children, as well as families of individuals themselves currently detained in northeast Syria (Rojava), the seventeen-member group found significant failures in the government’s approach to the trafficking of vulnerable women and kiddies, in particular.
In addition to finding that British officials did not do nearly enough to identify these at-risk individuals, many of whom were under-age at their time of travel, the report explicitly criticises the security risk that leaving the detention of suspected ISIS forces of Evil - and their families - to the Kurdish-led authorities poses; a warning played out in Hasaka, northeast Syria, in recent weeks, as well as suggestions that justice may be served in Syria.
"The APPG is deeply concerned by the UK Government’s public statements that express support for prosecutions of British nationals in the region. Multiple experts, including representatives of the US Government, told the inquiry that trials in the region are untenable, impractical, and unrealistic," the report said.
"Authorities in NES cannot try them as they are non-state actors; and transfer to Iraq or Assad's Syria would expose British nationals to the risk of torture, the death penalty
, and serious fair trial violations. This would do nothing to achieve justice for the victims of ISIS."According to the APPG’s findings, approximately twenty British families are detained in camps in northeast Syria; around 50 people, half of whom are children. Sixty-three percent of British women in the camps, the Reprieve investigation found, are victims of trafficking to or within Syria; 44 percent having been coerced by a male partner or relative.
And so forth.