The following is my
answer to a Quora question: “If someone left your country to join
a terrorist group, would you want your home country to allow them back when
they decided they have changed their mind?”
Singapore is very straightforward about this. If a citizen left to join a terrorist group,
we would want them back. But only to try
them in court, and hang them for sedition, if it came to that. Otherwise, there is a deradicalisation
programme.
Whilst stripping them of citizenship seems satisfying,
it would imply that we have abandoned our policy of ignoring dual citizenship. This also means that such a person will not
only escape justice by running off to another country, but is a source of
radicalisation that threatens our security.
Even when it comes to Permanent Residents, we make them serve out their
sentence first, if there is no capital punishment, before stripping them of
their PR status and deporting them.
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