(Radio NZ) “Free subject to conditions” would be the security status of terror suspect Suhayra Aden if she returns to New Zealand, according to a senior government minister.
It looks increasingly likely 25-year-old Suhayra Aden and her children will end up in New Zealand; they’re being held in a deportation centre in Turkey after trying to illegally cross the border from Syria.
RNZ has been told the message from New Zealand officials to their Turkish counterparts has been — “we’ll come and pick her up, just give us a bit more time because of Covid-19.”
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said national security would be of high priority if she does return here, so attention has been turning to the laws in place to respond to what could be New Zealand’s first case of a terror suspect returning.
