Leaving Shamima Begum and other Isis members in camps could have ‘unintended consequences’, terrorism expert warns
Syrian forces warn they cannot hold detention camps indefinitely and plead for UK to repatriate people
Leaving Shamima Begum and other former Isis members who joined from the UK in Syrian camps could have “unintended consequences”, the government’s terrorism adviser has warned.
Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said ministers had refused his formal request to scrutinise controversial citizenship deprivation powers as dozens of homegrown jihadists are indefinitely detained in precarious conditions.
He told The Independent that stripping people’s British nationality had become “the primary counterterrorism power to deal with Islamic State” members abroad and stop them returning to the UK.
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