OTTAWA – A former inmate from a camp in Syria who returned home this week has been released in Edmonton on the basis of a peace bond.

The RCMP department in Alberta said the 38-year-old Canadian would have 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.

Mr Greenspon added that the other two women and three children were not on board 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 these two women and three children home,” he said. They are war refugees. They were living in an area occupied by the Kurds, who were asking other countries to come and get their nationals.”

Like many other nationals of 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 interview the Canadian women, but because they didn’t speak French, the woman couldn’t understand them, Ms Bain said.