{"id":14229,"date":"2019-12-08T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reprieve.org.uk\/?post_type=press&#038;p=14229"},"modified":"2020-11-13T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:51:52","slug":"uk-govt-appears-to-have-walked-back-opposition-to-uk-nationals-being-sent-to-assad-controlled-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/2019\/12\/08\/uk-govt-appears-to-have-walked-back-opposition-to-uk-nationals-being-sent-to-assad-controlled-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Govt. appears to have \u2018walked back\u2019 opposition to UK nationals being sent to Assad-controlled Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights NGO Reprieve has raised concerns that the UK Government appears to have \u2018walked back its previous opposition to UK nationals being tried in Assad-controlled Syria\u2019, in a letter sent to the Foreign Secretary and published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=d176b31fc0ccbde9f3f3a6349&amp;id=b782ef84e7&amp;e=fb22e040cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/reprieve.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dd176b31fc0ccbde9f3f3a6349%26id%3Db782ef84e7%26e%3Dfb22e040cb&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575976791724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF2CEGUptHen3_hluJ3InkNr3XQNw\">in today\u2019s Observer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In April, a Foreign Office Minister confirmed to Parliament that&nbsp;\u201cwe would not view prosecution by the Assad regime as an appropriate means of justice\u201d.&nbsp;However, as the letter from Reprieve lays out, the FCO failed to stand by that statement last month when asked about the issue directly. Instead,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=d176b31fc0ccbde9f3f3a6349&amp;id=16ee7174d8&amp;e=fb22e040cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/reprieve.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dd176b31fc0ccbde9f3f3a6349%26id%3D16ee7174d8%26e%3Dfb22e040cb&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575976791724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEJK8WG6Ohm7-KvYewek_SMokU0cQ\">the FCO said<\/a>&nbsp;only that:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAny decision in relation to the continued detention, transfer or prosecution of detainees is ultimately a matter for authorities under whose jurisdiction the individuals are detained. The British Government is clear that those individuals who have fought for, or supported Daesh, whatever their nationality, should face justice through a fair trial in the most appropriate jurisdiction. The UK will work with international partners, as well as partners in the region who can assist in establishing an appropriate pathway to justice within their territory or legal systems.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although the FCO said it&nbsp;had human rights concerns about trials in Iraq and Syria, it stopped short of opposing&nbsp;such trials&nbsp;altogether.&nbsp;As the letter from Reprieve to the Foreign Secretary points out, the FCO&#8217;s&nbsp;statement also offers no clarity as to what the Government believes to be&nbsp;\u201can appropriate pathway to justice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There is no prospect that individuals currently held in Kurdish-run camps could be effectively tried within Bashar Al Assad\u2019s Syria. Should UK detainees be handed over to the Assad Government, they will face torture, disappearance and death. The UK Government\u2019s most recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=d176b31fc0ccbde9f3f3a6349&amp;id=699032adba&amp;e=fb22e040cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/reprieve.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dd176b31fc0ccbde9f3f3a6349%26id%3D699032adba%26e%3Dfb22e040cb&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575976791724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHYJ8NLJ0_12YEXJkrO-WH4P8pcZA\">Human Rights and Democracy report<\/a>&nbsp;acknowledges reports of \u201cwidespread and systematic use of arbitrary detention, torture and execution of detainees\u201d in Syrian prisons, while a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=d176b31fc0ccbde9f3f3a6349&amp;id=25284969a4&amp;e=fb22e040cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/reprieve.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dd176b31fc0ccbde9f3f3a6349%26id%3D25284969a4%26e%3Dfb22e040cb&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575976791724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE6iW5p3gggPi3CA7kUgGTHmpD_pg\">Human Rights Watch investigation<\/a>&nbsp;in 2015 revealed at least 6,700 killings in Syrian detention.<\/p>\n<p>While the UK Government has committed to repatriating British \u201corphans and unaccompanied minors\u201d, and has now done so in a number of cases, it has failed to take any action on behalf of the vast majority of British children and adults who remain in the camps.<\/p>\n<p>The letter to the Foreign Secretary was sent on November 29th. At time of writing Reprieve has not received a response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maya Foa, Director of Reprieve<\/strong>, said: &#8220;<em>Sending Brits to Assad&#8217;s Syria would be effectively sentencing them to torture, disappearance or summary execution &#8211; abuses that are directly opposed to fundamental British values and the law. Yet this Government appears unwilling to categorically rule this out as an option. They must do so at once, and begin efforts to repatriate British detainees to the UK where children may be given the support they require and adults may, if appropriate, face justice in British courts.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights NGO Reprieve has raised concerns that the UK Government appears to have \u2018walked back its previous opposition to UK nationals being tried in Assad-controlled Syria\u2019, in a letter sent to the Foreign Secretary and published&nbsp;in today\u2019s Observer. In April, a Foreign Office Minister confirmed to Parliament that&nbsp;\u201cwe would not view prosecution by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/2019\/12\/08\/uk-govt-appears-to-have-walked-back-opposition-to-uk-nationals-being-sent-to-assad-controlled-syria\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":17554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK Govt. appears to have \u2018walked back\u2019 opposition to UK nationals being sent to Assad-controlled Syria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/2019\/12\/08\/uk-govt-appears-to-have-walked-back-opposition-to-uk-nationals-being-sent-to-assad-controlled-syria\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK Govt. appears to have \u2018walked back\u2019 opposition to UK nationals being sent to Assad-controlled Syria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Human rights NGO Reprieve has raised concerns that the UK Government appears to have \u2018walked back its previous opposition to UK nationals being tried in Assad-controlled Syria\u2019, in a letter sent to the Foreign Secretary and published&nbsp;in today\u2019s Observer. 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