Crown to seek ‘terrorism peace bond’ against B.C. woman who married ISIS fighter Kimberly Polman has been detained for 3 years at al-Roj Syrian detention camp for families of ISIS fighters

October 26, 2022   

(CBC) A provincial court judge will hold a bail hearing Thursday morning for a B.C. woman who returned to Canada this week after years spent in Syria as the bride of an ISIS fighter.

Kimberly Polman made a brief appearance in Chilliwack provincial court, about 100 kilometres east of Vancouver, late Wednesday afternoon — hours after police arrested her on her arrival in Montreal under a section of the Criminal Code designed to keep people from participating in terrorism-related activities.

Polman has been detained for the past three years at al-Roj Syrian detention camp for families of ISIS fighters. She travelled to Syria in 2015 after marrying an ISIS fighter online and has said she was in a “terrible place” at the time.

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