(Sky News) Shamima Begum, the former east London schoolgirl who joined Islamic State, and other British-linked people who are detained in camps in Syria should be repatriated, a major review of UK counterterrorism policy has said.
The report, by an independent commission, said the current policy of leaving such women, men and children in limbo was “unsustainable” and risked turning the detention camps in northeastern Syria into “Britain’s Guantanamo.”
This is a reference to the notorious American detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that was used to imprison al Qaeda suspects indefinitely.
The Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism warned that conditions at the Syrian camps, including Al Hol and Al Roj, “constitute inhuman and degrading treatment.”
