The group has spent years in camps for people suspected of having ties to the Islamic State, is in ‘life-threatening and dire conditions’ as described by aid groups
The decision to allow the group to return marks a significant shift for the government, which for years has faced a political dilemma: Leave these Canadians to languish, or invite backlash at home by bringing back people who many believe pose a security risk because of their association with a terrorist group. Aid groups have long decried the dire conditions in the camps, but the government has still refused to repatriate its citizens in all but a handful of cases.
Four other Canadians who are part of the court application, all of them men, are not covered by the agreement and will remain in Syria while the case proceeds. In 2019, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces detained thousands of people from more than 60 countries who were living among Islamic State terrorists when the group’s final holdout in the town of Baghouz crumbled. Foreigners, including Canadians, were taken to two camps, known as al-Hol and Roj, and to prisons across northeastern Syria.
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