Canadian conditionally released after returning from Syria

(OTTAWA) A former detainee from a camp in Syria who returned home this week has been released in Edmonton on the basis of a peace treaty.




The RCMP department in Alberta said the 38-year-old Canadian had to meet several other conditions.

The woman was among a group of six women and 13 children whose repatriation Global Affairs Canada approved in January from detention centers in northeastern Syria. Four of them and ten children returned this week.

Two of these women are currently being held in Brampton, Ontario. They are expected to appear for parole on Tuesday.

The fourth woman was not arrested.

The 10 children were placed in the care of relatives, said Lawrence Greenspon, an Ottawa attorney who helped bring the women home.

Me Greenspon added that the other two women and three children were not on the return flight. He ignores the reasons.

“I am confident that Global Affairs Canada will continue to do in good faith what it would do, which is to bring home these two women and three children,” he commented. They are war refugees. They lived in an area occupied by the Kurds, who asked other countries to come and pick up their nationals. »

Like many other nationals from other countries, these women and children have been held for several years in camps run by Kurdish forces, which have regained control of the region previously occupied by the armed group Daesh.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last month that countries like Canada are responsible for repatriating their nationals. He added that these people were living “in the worst conditions”.

Families Against Violent Extremism’s Alexandra Bain says she is trying to help another 32 Canadians return home.

Canadian authorities have accepted the repatriation of six other children, but without their mother, because federal officials have not completed the safety assessment of this Quebecer. RCMP officers recently visited the camps to question the Canadian women, but since they didn’t speak French, the woman couldn’t understand them, Frau saidMe Bath.

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