Law Enforcement
Building a case against Isis returnees is not straightforward (LINK ONLY)
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Shamima Begum
Citizenship
Lisa Smith cannot be stripped of Irish citizenship, legal conference hears (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
No more orphans expected to be returned to UK from Syria (LINK ONLY)
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News Media
Times journalist ‘agonised’ over promise to call sister of ISIS bride Shamima Begum before filing exclusive (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Tooba Gondal: Turkey deports London Isis ‘matchmaker’ (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
U.S.-born ISIS bride says ‘everyone deserves a second chance’ Hoda Muthana says in an interview with NBC News that she worries for the future of her 2-year-old son, Adam, and wants to return home to Alabama.
(NBC) An American-born woman who once urged jihadists in America to “go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood,” says she “regrets every single thing” and believes she should be given the option to return to the United States with her […]
Children & Teens
Young people who joined ISIS should be allowed back to UK to fight terrorism, says Wales’ outgoing Muslim leader (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Isis women driven by more than marriage, research shows (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Shamima Begum: I fear psychotic Isis women (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
UK government considered repatriation of British Isis members (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Shamima Begum faces ‘extreme scenario’ in citizenship appeal (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Shamima Begum begins appeal against loss of UK citizenship (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
ISIS bride Shamima Begum wants to return to UK to argue she was ‘rape victim’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
UK special forces may help British orphans escape Syria (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
British and Irish women who recruited for Isil found in makeshift jail after escaping detention camp (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Jihadi bride Shamima Begum told to forget ever returning home to Britain (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Revealed: Cabinet at war over Boris Johnson’s plans to send the SAS into Syria to bring 30 Isis children back to Britain (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
‘I want to redeem myself,’ says jihadi bride. ‘Take me home’ (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Brit ISIS fighter ‘Hungry Hamza’ reveals he feels no guilt for group’s bloody reign of terror and claims he improved people’s lives (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Cherie Blair denies smuggling Isis bride into UK but ‘she should be let back’ (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
‘I’ve lost my babies. I’ve lost my friends. I just want to come home’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Lifestyle website for Muslim teens is covertly funded by the Home Office (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Lib Dems to call for overhaul of revocation of UK citizenship rules (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
ISIS bride Shamima Begum ‘has not been secretly flown back to UK’ (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Swiss revoke citizenship from dual-national Islamic State recruiter
(Reuters) Switzerland has revoked the citizenship of a man convicted of helping recruit jihadist fighters, invoking a law allowing dual nationals to be stripped of their Swiss passports for conduct detrimental to national interests or reputation. Though the Swiss federal immigration office […]
Law Enforcement
Shamima Begum: Journalists will not have to hand over notes (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Jihadi Jack’s parents brand Sajid Javid a ‘coward’ over revoked citizenship
(BBC) The parents of a UK-Canadian man who joined the Islamic State group have said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid is a “coward” for revoking his British citizenship. Jack Letts — dubbed Jihadi Jack — was 18 when he left his Oxfordshire […]
Government & Politics
Trump officials’ pleas to take back jihadis failing (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Isis babies will not be brought home (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Father’s bid to keep British citizenship for son who went to Syria to join ISIS is thrown out by High Court judge (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Met police seek access to journalists’ material on Shamima Begum (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Manchester Arena bomber’s brother has been granted legal aid — while victims’ families are denied helped (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
UK ‘has responsibility’ to prosecute IS fighters
(BBC) The failure to bring Britons who fought for the Islamic State group to justice in the UK is a “dereliction of responsibility,” a top US counter-terrorism official says. Since the fall of [the] group’s last Syrian stronghold, Baghuz, the US has […]
Deradicalization
Ex-jihadist Tania Joya now fights to ‘reprogram’ extremists
(AFP) Tania Joya has devoted her life to “reprogramming” extremists and reintroducing them into society — a process she understands well as a “former Islamic jihadist” herself. “My aim is for them to feel a sense of remorse and to train them […]
Academics & Education
Schoolgirls feared FGM after being sent abroad to be ‘de-westernised’ (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Countries urged not to strip terror suspects of citizenship
(Reuters) Stripping terror suspects of citizenship does not increase national security and may even make it worse, legal experts told a conference on ending statelessness. They are particularly concerned over the increasing use of the measure by Britain which this year revoked […]
Children & Teens
Shamima Begum: Lawyer says teen was ‘groomed’
(BBC) The lawyer representing Shamima Begum’s family has written to the home secretary accusing UK authorities of failing to protect the east London girl from being “groomed” by Islamic State. The letter accuses police and her local council of failing to safeguard […]
Children & Teens
Swedish terror expert: Do not allow ISIS women to return to Sweden
(Breitbart) Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp has recommended that the Swedish government should not allow female Islamic State members to return, citing a lack of laws to prosecute them. While he criticised the deficiency in the Swedish legal system, Ranstorp praised neighbouring Norway, […]
Children & Teens
France challenged over refusal to allow jihadist’s children home
(AFP) The grandparents of two children stranded with their French jihadist mother at a camp in Kurdish-held Syria filed a lawsuit at Europe’s top rights court Monday over France’s refusal to allow them home, lawyers said. It was the latest challenge to […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
New definition of Islamophobia ‘risks helping terrorists’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Shamima Begum: IS bride set to be granted legal aid
(BBC) Shamima Begum — who joined the Islamic State group aged 15 — is set to be granted legal aid to fight the decision to revoke her UK citizenship. The 19-year-old, who left east London in 2015, was stripped of her citizenship […]
Deradicalization
MPs blast soft treatment of jihadis on ‘government detox course’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Shamima Begum was cruel enforcer in Isil’s morality police, say Syrian witnesses (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
ISIS husband of Shamima Begum says he wants to return to the Netherlands with her so they can live a ‘normal life’ and ‘regrets’ going to Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Deradicalization
Extremists living in UK under secretive counter-terror programme (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Shamima Begum: I was brainwashed. I knew nothing (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
‘My sons left home to become terrorists and I don’t know if they’re alive or dead’ (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
‘Hungry Hamza’ once fought for the Islamic State. Now he’s a prisoner and asking about Western fast food
(Washington Post) Five years ago, Hamza Parvez was a pudgy Islamic State recruit from West London known for his unusual social media posts about kittens, KFC and what passed for fast food in the so-called caliphate. But as the Islamic State’s territory […]
Children & Teens
Shamima Begum husband: Isis bride is heartbroken and alone (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Shamima Begum’s lawyer: ‘What Javid has done is morally appalling and flawed legally’ Tasnime Akunjee on his quest to bring the Isis bride back to the UK.
(New Statesman) I met Tasnime Akunjee for the first time in autumn last year. I was interested in the case of the three girls from Bethnal Green Academy who in February 2015 joined Islamic State (IS) in Syria and, because he was […]