A terror watchdog has said Britain’s continued refusal to repatriate ISIS suspects like Shamima Begum could put the UK at “longer-term risk” of terrorist attacks.
The government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Jonathan Hall, KC, said the UK’s approach to British-linked ISIS individuals could leave it out of step with other countries—now repatriating citizens—and which could create a “Britain’s Guantanamo” in Syria.
In a speech in King’s College London (pdf), Hall said the risk ISIS now poses has changed, and that the UK is now “under the spotlight.”
He added that Britain’s policy of removing citizenship and limiting the assistance it will give to UK citizens in Syria, was now “at a crossroads.”…