Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen, is among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps and jails run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war-ravaged region from ISIL.
that reclaimed the war-ravaged region from militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Letts, 27, became a devoted Muslim as a teenager, went on holiday to Jordan, then studied in Kuwait before winding up in Syria. His family says he was captured by Kurdish forces while trying to escape the country with a group of refugees in 2017.Lane, who has long been pressing Ottawa to help repatriate her son, said she cannot thank the delegation enough for what it achieved.
The Canadian government must drop its “cruel campaign against families who simply want to end this nightmare and bring our loved ones home,” Lane said. “We’ve all suffered enough.” Ottawa has helped bring home some women and children from Syria but it has shown no interest in repatriating Canadian men.Lawyers for Letts and three other Canadian men held in Syria are telling the Supreme Court that Ottawa is being selective about which desperate citizens to assist, in violation of their constitutional rights.
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Mother of Canadian man detained in Syria ‘overjoyed’ to get word of sonOTTAWA — Sally Lane says she is “overjoyed” to hear news of her son Jack — even if he's barely hanging on in a Syrian prison — after years of silence.
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