Indonesia to deport British woman who married militant

Indonesian authorities say they plan to deport a British woman married to a slain Indonesian militant because of a visa violation and her alleged link to a hard-line religious group

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities said Wednesday they plan to deport a British woman married to a slain Indonesian militant because of a visa violation and her alleged link to a hard-line religious group.

Police said Tazneen Miriam Sailar was taken to Jakarta’s immigration detention center after Indonesia’s Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center linked her to the religious group Islamic Defenders Front, which was officially outlawed on Dec. 30.

National Police spokesperson Ahmad Ramadhan said Sailar, a charity fundraiser who grew up in Manchester, converted to Islam when she married a now-deceased Indonesian militant, Asep Ahmad Setiawan, in 2010.

Setiawan, a member of Indonesia’s al-Qaida-linked Jemaah…