ISIS bride Shamima Begum’s Dutch husband is ‘banned from Britain by Home Secretary Sajid Javid’
- Yago Riedijk, 27, has been put on an exclusion list which bans him from the UK
- The ISIS fighter is currently being held in a cell in northern Syria with 20 others
- Sajid Javid imposed the ban just weeks after Begum lost her British citizenship
Yago Riedijk, a 27-year-old jihadist from the Netherlands, has been placed on an exclusion list and is currently being held in a cell in northern Syria
The husband of ISIS bride Shamima Begum, 19, has been banned from entering Britain because he poses a national security risk.
Yago Riedijk, a 27-year-old jihadist from the Netherlands, has been placed on an exclusion list and is currently being held in a cell in northern Syria.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid imposed the ban just weeks after Begum, who is currently living in a Syrian refugee camp, lost her British citizenship.
The ban of Riedijk, who was jailed for six years last year in his home country the Netherlands for membership of a terrorist organisation, has been praised by Conservative MP Philip Hollobone.
He told the Sun it was ‘very welcome news’.
He said: ‘We need to see more of this. There is going to be the threat of thousands of these fighters returning to Europe over the next few months.
‘We have to make it clear they’re not welcome in this country.’
Riedijk married Begum in Syria in 2015 when she was just 15, days after she ran away from her family home in East London
The couple had three children who all died, the most recent of which was three-week-old Jerrah – named after a ‘jihadi warlord’
Shamima Begum, 19 (pictured before she left the country four years ago)
Riedijk married Begum in Syria in 2015 when she was just 15, days after she ran away from her family home in East London.
The couple had three children who all died, the most recent of which was three-week-old Jerrah – named after a ‘jihadi warlord’.
Begum pleaded with the British Government last month to be allowed to return to the UK after fleeing to Syria in 2015 to join ISIS.
She said she deserved sympathy and should be given a second chance.
Riedijk spoke about his love for his wife in an interview with The Times yesterday.
He said: ‘We got very close very quickly. The perfect wife. She was so young and innocent’.
Guidelines show that bans can be imposed on those who might advance an ideological cause that may endanger another person’s life.