ISIS Brides: Woman granted permit to return from Syria after subject to Temporary Exclusion Order
The woman was previously subject to a Temporary Exclusion Order.
The last of the so-called “ISIS brides” has been granted a permit to return to Australia.
The Australian woman was previously subject to a Temporary Exclusion Order.
She was the only woman in the group of Australians with links to ISIS in Syria to be issued the order.
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“We received the final advice yesterday that we can no longer have an exclusion condition for her.”
He said the exclusion order applies until a permit is issued and when a permit is requested, it must be issued.
Mr Burke added that Australian security agencies were prepared for their arrival.
“She will have to report where she lives, where she works, where she studies, if she books a ticket to anywhere, for telecommunications she cannot use any telecommunications device without giving 24 hours notice,” he said.
“Even if you want to use a public phone, it’s 24 hours notice. Any social media, 24 hours notice on everything has to be given so that there will be a very high level of scrutiny and surveillance.
“And we have gone absolutely to the legal limit that we’re able to.”
The woman and her child are the last Australians at the Al Roj camp in Syria.
They attempted to return home in May alongside a second cohort of ISIS-linked women and children leaving Syria.
However, the woman was blocked from boarding a Damascus flight because of the TEO applied by Mr Burke upon advice of ASIO, which banned her from returning to Australia for up to two years on grounds of national security.
It did not apply to her child.
The pair were reportedly then sent to a detention centre in Syria’s north-west.
It is understood that the woman travelled to Syria as a teenager in 2015.
Her child was born in August the following year and suffers from medical issues caused by shrapnel wounds sustained as a baby.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported the shrapnel was lodged in the child’s head, back and hip, made it difficult for her to walk and caused delayed speech and development.
Alongside other Australian women and children, they were transferred to camps in Syria’s north-east after the fall of the so-called ISIS caliphate in 2019.
It is unclear when the two will touch down in Australia.
With NewsWire.
