SHALIZA HASSANALI senior reporter shaliza.hassanali@guardian.co.tt Less than a fortnight after Sabirah Khalidah Waheed completed a six-year jail term in Iraq for her affiliation with the terrorist group ISIS, the Iraqi government is threatening to charge and imprison her again. This is the latest development in Waheed’s saga according to her attorney Criston J Williams. Waheed,…
Senior Reporter derek.achong@guardian.co.tt A High Court Judge has stopped the planned deportation of a Russian man who is seeking asylum in T&T until he can be reunited with his wife in Turkey. Justice Joan Charles granted the order when Ali Iakupov’s lawsuit came up before her yesterday morning. It will remain in place until…
Senior Reporter shaliza.hassanali@gmail.com After seven years, a minor who returned from formerly ISIS-controlled Syria has been granted T&T citizenship. It means he can now access education and healthcare. It was a bittersweet moment for the boy’s mother, Crystal Peters. She told the Sunday Guardian she feels somewhat betrayed that Government is advancing a policy…
The commitment from Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to repatriate over 100 T&T nationals who are currently being held at detention camps and jails in Syria and Iraq, has been welcomed with relief by their relatives and the local group lobbying for their return. However, apprehensive about the lack of definitive timelines for process, relatives…
SHALIZA HASSANALI Senior Reporter Shaliza.hassanali@guardian.co.tt After six years in a prison in Iraq, Sabirah Khalidah Waheed’s sentence will come to an end on Wednesday, clearing the way for her to be the first Trinidadian to be deported from the conflict zone. Waheed, 33, is a convicted terrorist. She was jailed for her affiliation with…
A Trinidadian woman who was jailed in Iraq for her affiliation to the Islamic State (ISIS), the terrorist group which has caused havoc in some countries for years, is set to be deported home after serving her sentence in July. Guardian Media has been reliably informed that Sabirah Khadijah Waheed, who is currently serving a…
THE media came in for blows yesterday when the Ministry of National Security hosted a news conference to respond to the claims of a 21-year-old migrant woman that she was beaten and raped by Coast Guard personnel while detained at the Heliport Immigration Station in Chaguaramas. Speaking at the news conference at the Ministry of…
Attorney Criston Williams has called on Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds to speak out on the alleged sexual assault of a 21-year-old Venezuelan woman while she was being detained at the Chaguaramas Heliport in April. On Sunday, it was reported that the woman claimed to be brutally raped by members of the defence force….
Forty-six of over 90 Venezuelan migrants who were deported last month have returned to this country. And while many of them have returned as they are seeking asylum in other countries, their attorneys have advised them to seek out the T&T Police Service (TTPS) in the interim. In a letter to Commissioner of Police Erla…
A joint exercise which saw several arms of national security working together yesterday morning resulted in 200 Venezuelan nationals being detained after it was discovered they were undocumented. The detainees were held as they partied at a popular bar along the Western Main Road, St James. The group, which included people between the ages of…
