A group of at least 19 Canadian women and children are on their way home after spending years held in camps in northeastern Syria for people with suspected ISIS ties, according to their lawyer.
Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon told CBC News that some of his clients were moved out of the Al Roj camp overnight.
The federal government is appealing that decision and has argued in court that it has no legal obligation to repatriate Canadians in trouble abroad. The government had warned Canadians against travelling to ISIS-controlled territory.Ottawa to repatriate 19 women and children held in Syria, lawyer saysThe federal government has agreed to repatriate 19 Canadian women and children held in Syrian detention camps for suspected ISIS members and their families.
Greenspon represents a Quebec woman with six children; he said he doesn't know if they are part of the repatriation effort. Greenspon said his client called him overnight to tell him she agreed to send her children to Canada but wanted to go with them. "To separate a mother from her children is contrary to every international children's rights convention to which Canada is a signatory."
The RCMP were at Al Roj camp last week asking to conduct on-camera interviews with some Canadian women detained.At least two of the foreign mothers and their children, which they had with Canadian men, were left behind, said their Toronto immigration lawyer Asiya Hirji. "I have a letter from an organization that works with autistic children that said the mom and child being separated would be catastrophic for the child's well-being," said Hirji.UN experts recently called on countries to urgently repatriate children from northeast Syria with their mothers, saying "children in conflict zones must be protected, not punished."
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