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Islamic State fighters who return to the UK should face justice, committee says

By Editorial Board Published May 13, 2025 4 Min Read
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Islamic State fighters who return to the UK should face justice, committee says

Islamic State fighters who return to the UK after killings, terror assaults and persecuting minorities should face justice, a committee of MPs and friends has mentioned.

Greater than 400 individuals who fought for the group, additionally known as ISIS and Daesh, are thought to have then returned to the UK, after travelling to the Center East.

ISIS as soon as held swathes of land in Syria and Iraq and was chargeable for widespread campaigns of terror, homicide, and rape.

This usually focused minority non secular teams just like the Yazidis.

Crawford gave proof to parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), which in a brand new report has warned that not one of the ISIS supporters who had made their approach again to the UK had been efficiently prosecuted.

It known as on the federal government to take steps to make sure they are often tried in British courts, after ministers beforehand claimed such crimes have been “best investigated and prosecuted under local laws” – that means overseas.

‘The UK can’t wash its arms of this’

“Where the UK has jurisdiction over international crimes, the UK should seek to investigate and prosecute such crimes,” the committee’s newest report mentioned.

Nevertheless, the report mentioned that UK courts confronted a “key barrier” to delivering justice on battle crimes and genocide.

This was as a result of it’s not doable to prosecute individuals for these crimes until they’re UK nationals, residents or “subject to service personnel laws”.

The committee mentioned ministers ought to use the Crime and Policing Invoice, at the moment making its approach via parliament, to amend the legislation.

Lord Alton, chairman of the JCHR, mentioned: “This is not something the UK can simply wash its hands of because it happened overseas.

“We all know that British nationals dedicated probably the most horrendous crimes in Iraq and Syria beneath the Daesh [ISIS] regime and we’ve got an obligation to see them delivered to justice.

“To date, no Daesh fighters have been successfully prosecuted for international crimes in the UK and we find this unacceptable.”

The committee added that extra should even be achieved to repatriate youngsters held in camps in northeast Syria the place former ISIS fighters and their households are being held.

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‘There aren’t any rights for something’

Crawford was a type of who gave proof to the committee.

She first met Yazidi ladies captured by ISIS in 2014, and has coated the subject a variety of occasions since, together with most lately within the 10 Years Of Darkness: ISIS & The Yazidis documentary.

She informed the committee the camps in northeast Syria have been “filled with hopelessness and helplessness, and a really strong anger and frustration”.

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“There are multiple human rights concerns,” she mentioned, including that these dwelling there basically had no rights.

She went on: “There is no right of freedom. There is no right to access to legal representation. There are no rights for anything.

“Most of the youngsters – I have no idea what number of – have been born there.

“They are very young – younger than six – so many of them have been born there in, to be honest, very dirty, disgusting conditions.”

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