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Canada will repatriate 28-year-old British ‘Jihadi Jack’ from the Syrian prison camp, raising fears that dozens of ISIS sympathizers may soon return to their home countries.
Canada will repatriate British-born ISIL member ‘Jihadi Jack’ from an Islamic State prison camp in north-eastern Syria.
Muslim convert Jack Letts, 28, had been granted British and Canadian citizenship but declared himself an “enemy of Britain” after fleeing his Oxfordshire home to fight in Syria.
After being captured by the Kurdish authorities in 2017, he begged to be allowed to return to the UK.
The Home Office tore up his British passport in 2019, making him the responsibility of the Canadian government.
Canada to repatriate British-born ISIL member ‘Jihadi Jack’ from an Islamic State prison camp in northeastern Syria
Muslim convert Jack Letts, 28, had obtained British and Canadian citizenship in a duel but declared himself an “enemy of Britain” after fleeing his Oxfordshire home to fight in Syria.
Despite being close allies, the decision to strip Letts of his British citizenship sparked fury in Ottawa.
A diplomatic source said the Canadian government had been “freaked out” by the decision to strip Letts of British citizenship because it had “so little to do with Canada”.
The move has raised fears that dozens of ISIS sympathizers may soon return to their home countries.
Begum, one of three schoolgirls from east London who traveled to Syria to join ISIS, also lost her UK passport after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.
The Londoner fled the UK in February 2015 and lived under ISIS rule for more than three years, where she married a Dutch jihadist.
Canada said it would take back 23 of its citizens after relatives of those detained argued that prevention would violate their constitutional rights. The Telegraph informed.
The Canadian federal court’s decision was based on prison conditions and that they have not been charged or convicted.
The ruling read: ‘The conditions of the… men are even more dire than those of the women and children Canada has just agreed to repatriate.
Sally Lane and John Letts, who is Canadian, sent £223 to their son while he was in Syria despite knowing that he had joined IS. They were convicted of financing terrorism. (Pictured: Sally Lane and John Letts)
After converting to Islam at the age of 16, Letts traveled to the Middle East in 2014, where he married an Iraqi woman.
“There is no evidence that any of them have been tried or convicted, let alone tried in a manner recognized or sanctioned by international law.”
After converting to Islam at age 16, Letts traveled to the Middle East in 2014, where he married an Iraqi woman.
He was captured and imprisoned in 2017 by forces fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) terrorist group.
Letts’s parents were found guilty at the Old Bailey in 2019 of financing terrorism.
They were sentenced to 15 months in prison, with a 12-month suspension.
Sally Lane and John Letts, who is Canadian, sent £223 to their son while he was in Syria despite knowing he had joined IS.