If Western countries insist on bringing jihadis back, this is the way they should be handled, rather than being allowed to walk the streets freely and without surveillance, as in Britain.
“Denmark Tries Returned Jihadist for High Treason in Historic Case,” Sputnik, July 20, 2020:
Should 29-year-old Ahmed El-Haj be found guilty, he would become the first Danish citizen brought to justice for high treason in over 70 years, since Nazi collaborators were tried in the aftermath of World War II.
Ahmed El-Haj, a 29-year-old Danish citizen-turned-jihadist has been arrested for high treason, the newspaper Berlingske reported.
El-Haj went to Syria in 2013. After four years in war-torn Syria, the man was wounded in a bomb attack. With the help of smugglers, he managed to get to Turkey with his wife and two children. Once in Turkey, he was arrested and served a year in prison for joining terrorists and extradited to Denmark two years later.
The 29-year-old was previously suspected of terrorist crimes and used photographs of Danish politicians Naser Khader and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, and the anti-Islamic debater Lars Hedegaard as “enemies of Islam” in a video that surfaced later….
The 14 Daesh* returnees who have been prosecuted and convicted in Denmark since 2015 received between three and six years in prison, with the law having no retroactive effect. El-Haj’s case is different as he apparently stayed with Daesh until 2017. He is now facing a life sentence….
Ahmed El-Haj was born and raised in the Gellerupparken district of Aarhus and was a member of the notorious Grimhøj Mosque that produced a number of jihadists….