AUTHORITIES said they plan to deport a British woman married to a slain Indonesian militant because of a visa violation and her alleged link to a hardline religious group.
Police said on Wednesday that Tazneen Miriam Sailar was taken to Jakarta’s immigration detention centre after Indonesia’s Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre linked her to the religious group Islamic Defenders Front, which was outlawed on Dec 30.
National Police spokesman Ahmad Ramadhan said Sailar, a charity fundraiser who grew up in Manchester, converted to Islam when she married a now-deceased Indonesian militant, Asep Ahmad Setiawan, in 2010.
Setiawan, a member of Indonesia’s al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network, died in a combat zone in Syria in 2014, Ahmad said. The group was blamed for a