Canada repatriating 6 women and their children currently detained in Syria: sources
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Global Affairs has agreed to repatriate six Canadian women and 13 children currently detained in prison camps in northeast Syria, according to Lawrence Greenspon, the lawyer representing them in a federal court case.
Global Affairs has agreed to repatriate six Canadian women and 13 children currently detained in prison camps in northeast Syria, according to Lawrence Greenspon, the lawyer representing them in a federal court case.
Most of the Canadians have been detained since the fall of the Islamic State in 2019. Greenspon had argued that their detention is a breach of their constitutional rights.
Greenspon says the repatriation agreement does not include four men who are also applicants in the case.
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