{"id":24729,"date":"2025-12-03T16:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/?p=24729"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:03:10","slug":"maya-foa-writes-in-the-daily-express-brits-in-north-east-syria-must-be-brought-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/2025\/12\/03\/maya-foa-writes-in-the-daily-express-brits-in-north-east-syria-must-be-brought-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Foa writes in the Daily Express: Brits in North East Syria must be brought home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Daily Express commissioned the below opinion piece from Reprieve, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/binghamcentre.biicl.org\/documents\/2249_biicl_uk_counter-terrorism_report_digital_12-11-25_final__reduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> published by the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice, which recommended that all British nationals be repatriated. The article as published (with Express headline) is below. Including in full here as this is content we supplied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shamima Begum needs to return to the UK &#8211; it&#8217;s Keir Starmer\u2019s problem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Maya Foa &#8211; Executive Director of human rights charity Reprieve<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/david-lammy-keir-starmer-sebastian-gorka-trump-islamic-state-b2676385.html\">has said<\/a> that when deciding whether to repatriate British nationals from North East Syrian prison camps \u201cthe driving principle, the number one question will be, what\u2019s in our national security interests?\u201d If only this were true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because is it abundantly clear: for Britain\u2019s security, and the world\u2019s, by far the safest thing to do is bring them home. Leaving these British families in dangerous detention camps on the brink of collapse, in an unstable region where ISIS is plotting a comeback, is a much greater risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t believe me? Admiral Brad Cooper, who commands US forces in the Middle East, recently visited the camps and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/MEDIA\/PRESS-RELEASES\/Press-Release-View\/Article\/4315974\/centcom-urges-nations-to-repatriate-displaced-and-detained-people-from-syria\/\">urged<\/a> nations to repatriate their citizens, saying this would be \u201ca decisive blow against ISIS\u2019s ability to regenerate\u201d. Britain\u2019s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Jonathan Hall KC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8d9plerrrqo\">agrees<\/a>. So do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dcc420ce-88ac-4288-a0bf-e71dbb119725\">Lord Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg<\/a>, from opposite ends of the political spectrum. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2025-01-10\/nigel-farage-says-government-should-consider-allowing-shamima-begum-back-home\">Nigel Farage<\/a> apparently thinks so, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, the Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism joined this consensus, warning that the camps risk becoming \u201cBritain\u2019s Guant\u00e1namo\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/counterterrorism-review-calls-for-shamima-begum-and-other-british-linked-people-in-syria-to-be-repatriated-13468688\">calling on<\/a> the Government to \u201cappoint a special envoy to oversee repatriation and inform returnees of the likelihood of prosecution.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stripping British people of their citizenship and abandoning them in the desert was always a weak, short-term solution. It kicked the can down the road \u2013 something all governments love doing. Rather than deal with tricky questions of who to prosecute, which of the women were trafficked, how to rehabilitate them, and so on, the government simply took away all the rights that come with a British passport and declared them someone else\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This abdication of responsibility was unsustainable from the start \u2013 and now the can can\u2019t be kicked any further. Syria\u2019s new government, under former Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/world\/middleeast\/syria-kurds-agreement.html\">signed a deal<\/a> with the Kurdish-controlled Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that will eventually see it take charge of the detention facilities. And although frequent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/two-syrian-soldiers-killed-clashes-with-sdf-ministry-says-2025-11-20\/\">clashes<\/a> between the two underscore the volatility of the situation, both sides agree that the camps must be closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first weeks of Donald Trump\u2019s administration, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-aid-cuts-risk-riots-breakouts-islamic-state-linked-camps-syria-2025-02-14\/\">US Aid freeze<\/a> offered a reminder of how utterly dependent these open air prisons are on American funding. Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgvz6316zwo\">backing<\/a> al-Sharaa, but he has made clear that there is no blank cheque. Meanwhile, SDF officials are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/25\/forgotten-by-west-syria-is-prisons-threat-militant-group-mobilises\">warning<\/a> that the threat of an Islamic State resurgence is greater than ever, and that the camps are an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/01\/25\/world\/syria-news-isis-us\">enticing target<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever you think of Shamima Begum \u2013 and if you have a daughter, ask yourself whether you\u2019d cast her out forever if she made a stupid mistake when she was 15 years old \u2013 she is British, and only British. What to do about her and the other Britons detained in North East Syria is Britain\u2019s problem \u2013 or to be more precise, Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The simple solution is to bring them home and prosecute the adults where there are cases to answer. British courts are vastly experienced in bringing terrorism prosecutions. As former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord Ken McDonald <a href=\"https:\/\/appgtraffickedbritons.org.uk\/security-experts-tell-appg-that-not-repatriating-british-nationals-from-syria-is-a-blot-on-our-conscience-that-makes-all-of-us-less-safe\/\">told a parliamentary enquiry<\/a>: \u201cWe have a justice system that is generally reckoned to be as robust as any in the world\u2026 I think we should set our justice system loose on some of these individuals.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our allies have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-68971030\">demonstrated<\/a> over and over again that it can be done. The US, Germany, Australia, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada and many other countries have repatriated large numbers of their nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous Conservative government may have created this situation, by burying its head in the sand rather than face up to its responsibilities, but now it is up to this Labour government to deal with it. For the sake of British and global security, these British families must be repatriated, and the detention camps shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Express commissioned the below opinion piece from Reprieve, following the report published by the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice, which recommended that all British nationals be repatriated. The article as published (with Express headline) is below. Including in full here as this is content we supplied. 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