VI. SECURITY CONCERNS ARISING FROM THE CAMPS 92. Concerns that all detainees held in the camps are simply too dangerous to be returned are not convincing. First, the risk profile of the women and children detained in North East Syria is heterogeneous. RSI’s research suggests that some women were deceived into joining ISIL and forced or otherwise manipulated into travel to Syria by their husbands or ISIL recruiters.79 Some of the women and families to whom RSI spoke alleged kidnapping, others reported being tricked into thinking they were travelling to the region to undertake humanitarian work. In other cases, women felt a duty to follow their husbands, or felt obliged for financial reasons. It is also true that a significant proportion of the women who originally travelled to Syria did so knowing that they were joining ISIL, albeit that many of them have said that they did not fully understand the consequences of doing so, or the true nature of the ISIL regime. For many of the women interviewed by RSI, Islamophobic treatment in their countries of origin influenced their decision to travel to Syria, with many saying that they went there in search of somewhere they could live and practise their religion in peace. One detainee interviewed by RSI spoke of how ‘it was difficult in Germany; someone spat on me because I was wearing a veil.’ Another woman described how ‘my husband felt that even living in an unstable country would be better than feeling foreign in our country because of a veil or a beard.’ The International Centre for the Study of Violent Extremism (‘ICSVE’) has reported similar findings after speaking with 38 woman associated with ISIL.80 93 . ICSVE’s report explains that ‘[i]nternet recruiters often were seductive to these women, promising marriage, significance in ISIL and traditional lifestyles.’81 It is widely acknowledged that at least some of the women who travelled to Syria were groomed by internet recruiters.82 As noted above, a commonly cited influence on women’s decision to travel to Syria came from their husbands. ICSVE reports that ‘many women followed husbands, some fearing emotional or financial abandonment.’83 Many of the women who RSI spoke to in the camps spoke of the decision as being pre-eminently that of their husbands.84 Whilst some women actively supported this decision, others felt unable to resist out of a sense of duty to inter alia their husbands and/or families or for reasons of financial and/or emotional dependence.85 94. It is significant that most of the women RSI spoke to in the camps had quickly become disillusioned by life under ISIL and some had attempted to escape. However, in most cases, escape proved impossible as women were prevented from doing so by either their husbands or ISIL itself. One family member that RSI interviewed explained that her daughter had tried to escape with her children, but that ISIL has caught them and sent them to prison, saying ‘if you try to run away again we will kill you and your children.’ 95. A high proportion of women and children who travelled to Syria and have found themselves detained in the al Hol and Roj camps either never were, or are no longer, committed to the ISIL cause, and therefore pose no overwhelming security risk justifying lengthy detention at all, let alone detention without any proper legal process, investigation, or 36 RIGHTS & SECURITY INTERNATIONAL