A Spanish judge on Wednesday ordered two women repatriated from Syria to be jailed without bail for their alleged involvement in the Islamic State group.
The couple must be retained because they are considered a flight risk and because of their long alleged connections with IS, the judge said in a statement issued by the National Court. The women are investigated for the crime of belonging to a terrorist organization.
The court considers the women part of the Madrid-based so-called Al-Andalus Brigade that indoctrinated people and helped them travel to Syria and Iraq, where they fought for Islamic State. The two women and their husbands moved to Iraq in 2014.
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Exterior views of the National Court building, in Madrid, Spain, on March 21, 2006.
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The women and 13 children, which included their own children and others in the care of one of their children, were flown to Spain from Syria on Tuesday. They had spent years in a refugee camp that houses many wives and children of Islamic State fighters.
The children were taken in by social services, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said.
