Indonesia has detained a British woman named on a list of global terror suspects and plans to deport her for visa violations, authorities told the AFP news agency.
Tazneen Miriam Sailar – a Manchester-born convert to Islam once married to a now-deceased Indonesian fighter – is not charged with terror offences.
But she and her late husband are also on an Indonesian police list of suspected domestic and foreign fighters, which includes a Frenchman who appeared in the ISIL (ISIS) group’s beheading videos and another close to the brothers who massacred staff at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Sailar, 47, and her 10-year-old Indonesia-born son were being held in Jakarta after they were picked up last year on allegations she did not have the required documents to remain in the Southeast Asian nation, according to her lawyer Farid Ghozali.
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Tazneen Miriam Sailar is a Manchester-born convert to Islam once married to a now-deceased Indonesian jihadist. He, however, is not charged with terror offences.
Indonesia has detained a British woman named in a list of global terror suspects and plans to deport her for visa violations.
Tazneen Miriam Sailar is a Manchester-born convert to Islam once married to a now-deceased Indonesian jihadist. He, however, is not charged with terror offences.
Sailar was born in Manchester on February 20, 1973 and holds a British passport, according to the list, which also said she goes by at least two aliases.
But she and her late husband are on a police list of suspected domestic and foreign extremists, including a Frenchman who appeared in Islamic State (IS) beheading videos and another close to the brothers who massacred staff at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.