The head of the international Red Cross has sharply criticised Britain’s policy of stripping the citizenship of people held in Syria after the fall of Islamic State, saying it is “not conducive” to long-term peace in the region. Save the Children has estimated that about 60 British children remain in the region. “We do have a final opinion that you can’t detain and retain people without a basic process of law,” Maurer added. About 60 British men and women remain in prisons or refugee camps in the region. One, Jack Letts, who left the UK to fight for Isis, has remained in detention since 2017 and had his British citizenship stripped, leaving him with the Canadian nationality of his father, while waiting for his situation to be resolved.

Source: The Guardian November 30, 2019 04:52 UTC