Leaving British Isis members in Syrian camps is a ‘coward’s Guantanamo’, says former chief prosecutor


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Syrian camps where British Isis members and their children are being held indefinitely have been labelled “a coward’s Guantanamo ” by the former director of public prosecutions . Lord Macdonald compared the current situation to the US-run detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, which has been used to hold hundreds of terror suspects without trial. “I think we’re just demonstrating an unwillingness to take responsibility, I think it’s an embarrassment personally … a coward’s form of Guantanamo,” the crossbench peer added. He was among witnesses giving evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Trafficked Britons in Syria on Monday....