StarExclusive: Two Canadian women and three teenage girls are missing somewhere in northeast Syria, after an attempt by the Canadian government to repatriate them earlier this month failed.
Two Canadian women and three teenage girls are missing somewhere in northeast Syria, after an attempt by the Canadian government to repatriate them earlier this month failed.
four other Canadian women and 10 children, they were instead taken by Kurdish officials to a facility other female captives refer to as the “Red Prison.” The women are sisters-in-law from Edmonton who left Canada to join the Islamic State terrorist group in 2014. One of the women brought her three young daughters, who are now 13, 15 and 16. When the group, also known as ISIS or Daesh, lost its last battle to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in 2019, the women were captured and taken to the sprawling detention camps administered by the Kurdish forces in what’s known as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or AANES.
Al-Khatib, who represents the missing women, said he was told by Global Affairs officials that both the women, aged 41 and 33, may be arrested upon return to Canada and the grandmother of the three girls would assume their custody.who were successfully repatriated earlier this month and arrested on terrorism peace bonds. Days later, they were released on bail with conditions, until their bond applications could be heard in court. A fourth woman was not charged.
“What I was told by Global Affairs,” Al-Khatib said he told the women, “was that the Canadian government has told the Kurds to transport you to al-Roj, but you have to ask for it. You actually have to say we want to be transported; otherwise they’re not going to do it of their own initiative.”
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