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| UK court seizes passports of Syria-bound girls and their parents | |
| 2015-03-22 | |
| [IsraelTimes] London judge bars five teenagers from traveling abroad, citing fears they planned to join jihadists A British judge on Friday barred five teenage girls from travelling abroad amid concerns they would go to Syria to join Islamist fighters, in the second such ruling this week. High Court judge Anthony Hayden made the girls from east London -- two aged 15 and three aged 16 -- "wards of court," a legal move that prevents them leaving England and Wales. He confiscated their passports and also those of a number of adults involved in caring for them, noting that in at least one other case a young girl traveled on a relative's passport.
"It seems to me that that must have been known to the parents and they deliberately did not share it with the authorities who were keen to protect these vulnerable maidens of tender years," the judge said. He acknowledged his ruling was a "draconian" step, but said: "The risk contemplated here is as grave as it can be for it is common knowledge that so many have bit the dust in Syria and so many have gone knowing that would be likely." Earlier this week, Hayden imposed a similar ruling on a 16-year-old boy amid fears he would follow his three brothers in joining al-Qaeda linked fighters in Syria. Two of the brothers have been killed, and the other maimed. "Sometimes the law has to intervene to protect these young people, ultimately from themselves," the judge said Friday. British authorities are increasingly concerned by the numbers of young people heading to join jihadists in Syria, after a string of high-profile cases in recent weeks. Three schoolgirls from London followed a classmate to Syria earlier this year by travelling through ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , while three teenage boys and a 21-year-old woman were stopped in Turkey in the past week on suspicion of trying to cross the border. About 700 people are thought to have gone to Syria from Britannia, of whom almost half are reported to have returned. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Two of the brothers have been killed, and the other maimed. That's a feature, not a bug. Let the little brother and all the little sisters follow. What? You'd rather they were attacking London synagogues? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-03-22 16:21 |
| #5 Let them go but don't let them back in. |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2015-03-22 16:00 |
| #4 Two of the brothers have been killed, and the other maimed. Ah...the silver lining. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2015-03-22 11:34 |
| #3 Let them leave, just don't let them return. It'll save on welfare payments to boot - win-win. |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-03-22 07:53 |
| #2 Silly girls---you don't have to travel to Syria to participate in Jihad. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-22 05:13 |
| #1 Put em down. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-03-22 01:10 |