Children of British ISIS Brides Are Being Secretly Repatriated, Placed for Adoption: Report

British ladies who joined the ISIS terror group are actively repatriating their youngsters to the United Kingdom for adoption, based on a report by a UK tabloid. These ladies and their besieged youngsters, for years, had been residing in an internally displaced folks camp in northeastern Syria, following the 2019 fall of the Islamic State group.

Their fathers have both been jailed or killed whereas combating abroad. At least ten youngsters have reportedly been repatriated from detention camps in Syria, primarily orphans of unaccompanied minors, Daily Mail reported. Among them are two siblings, whose British mom is believed to have perished in northeastern Syria in 2019, with their non-British father at present detained in a camp for international fighters.

These Syria-born siblings have been repatriated final yr and are presently residing with foster carers in southeast England, up for adoption, regardless of the willingness of their non-UK residing grandparents to care for them. As per the British each day, advocacy teams assert that the native authority accountable for the youngsters rejected the grandparents’ supply. Initially transferred with different family members to the infamous al-Hol detention camp in Syria following the collapse of the self-proclaimed Caliphate, the siblings have been later relocated to an orphanage, at which level the UK grew to become concerned.

Campaigners stress that seven different unaccompanied youngsters have returned to Britain, with one allowed again final October along with his mom. All repatriated youngsters are believed to have undergone counseling, with older ones probably referred to the Prevent deradicalisation program. According to the report, some 38 youngsters with ties to the UK are estimated to stay in Syrian camps, together with 21 ladies, together with Shamima Begum, who left for Syria to hitch ISIS on the age of 15 in 2015. The UK, having been the final Western nation to withstand repatriating households related to ISIS, has made exceptions solely for a restricted quantity of unaccompanied youngsters.

A London-based human rights group criticised the UK authorities for “abdicating responsibility,” highlighting considerations that boys might be moved to hazardous grownup prisons upon reaching adolescence. Calls for a change in authorities coverage are rising, with mounting apprehensions that youngsters stranded in Syria face peril and are inclined to radicalisation.

Richard Barrett, former director of counter-terrorism at MI6, informed UK’s Sunday Times that the refusal by the British Government to permit the ladies and youngsters to return to the UK might be harmful in the long run. “It is hard to argue that these women and children pose less of a threat, either now or in the future, while they remain poorly supervised, exposed to the influence of their former Islamic State comrades and at risk of further exploitation than they would if under the watchful eye of our highly competent security authorities in the UK, and of their own communities,” he mentioned.