Sen. Kim Pate says she's never seen anything like the conditions she witnessed in a Kurdish detention camp housing Canadians in Syria.
has just returned from a humanitarian delegation to an autonomous region of northeast SyriaThe delegation says at least 23 Canadian citizens are being held in the camps, including nine men, one woman and 13 children, seven of whom have non-Canadian mothers. The group was able to meet with two Canadian men.
And, horrifically, by not taking up our part as Canadians to bring folks back ... the longer it goes on, the more the injustices and the inhumanity and the human rights violations mount. Pate, right, and delegation member Alex Neve, a senior fellow with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, arrive for a news conference in Ottawa.
We also want them to engage with the Autonomous Administration for North and East Syria, AANES as it's referred to, to repatriate all Canadians detained in the camps and prisons, [and] issue temporary residence permits to ensure that non-Canadian mothers and siblings of Canadian children detained in the camps are able to travel to Canada.
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