THE HAGUE: A Dutch court on Tuesday ordered the provisional release of a young woman being probed on terrorism charges after her mother rescued her from Syria, where she had married an Islamic State fighter.

“The judge has decided to free Aicha if she adheres to certain conditions,” the Limburg regional court said in a statement.

A convert to Islam who travelled to Syria in February to marry an IS fighter she saw as a Robin Hood figure, Aicha, whose surname was not given, was arrested after landing back in the Netherlands with her mother Monique last Wednesday.

A judge on Friday had ordered Aicha to be detained pending possible terrorism charges, including taking part in a terrorist organisation.

The court declined to give the precise conditions for Aicha’s release, but said it broadly meant the 19-year-old -- called Sterlina before she adopted an Arab name -- should “not commit any crimes and adhere to any request by the police and justice officials”.

Monique, 49, has previously told Dutch television how her daughter converted to Islam and began wearing a face-covering niqab.

Aicha travelled to Syria to join a Dutch-Turkish jihadist fighter who went to the war-torn country to train fighters for the IS group.

Published in Dawn, November 26th, 2014