Hafsa Sliti

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Hafsa Sliti
Born 1988 (age 35–36)
Belgium
Nationality Belgian
Known for followed her father to Daesh controlled Syria

Hafsa Sliti is the oldest of five sibling born to Amor Sliti, born in Tunisia, and Christine Volcke, a Belgian.[1]

Her parent's marriage allowed her father to become a Belgian citizen.[1] He was apparently a moderate muslim until some point in the 1990s, when he was radicalized.

He took his wife and children to Afghanistan, via Yemen in 1999 or 2000.[1] Volcke fled, without, however, being able to Hafsa and her siblings with her. Her father agreed to marry Hafsa to a member of the Taliban, when she was just 13 years old. Hafsa bore her Taliban husband a child.

Hafsa, her father, and siblings, ended up in an Iranian refugee camp.[1] They were deported back to Belgium in February 2002. Hafsa and her siblings were put in the care of Volcke, her mother, while her father was tried and convicted of terrorism charges.

Her father was stripped of Belgian citizenship, and deported to Tunisia in 2010.[1] He traveled to the newly established Islamic State, Daesh, where he worked in the tax department. Hafsa joined him, in 2015. She married a jihadi fighter, and bore another child. She says that by 2017 she and her father had grown disillusioned with the brutality and corruption of the Daesh regime. She says they made three escape attempts, and that her father was shot on the third attempt.

Hafsa says she is not a threat, and would prefer to be repatriated to Belgium, with her children, even if it meant serving a prison sentence.[1]

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