Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/MONTREAL: Ottawa announced on Friday that Canada would repatriate six women and 13 infants who have been detained in northeast Syria camps for the family members of the Daesh group.
According to the Arab News, it was the largest such repatriation of militant group Daesh family members by Canada. It comes after women went court to force the government to bring them home, and saying it obliged to under the Canadian Charter of Freedoms and Rights.
Canada’s foreign ministry stance
The country’s foreign ministry said that it had reached a “mutually acceptable resolution” of a case over their application to return.
The agreement resolved the case for the nineteen Canadian women and children but left four males seeking repatriation as part of the case to decide in the coming weeks.
Global Affairs Canada, the foreign ministry, said that the safety and security of Canadian citizens is our government’s top priority.
The foreign ministry said that we continue to evaluate the provision of the extraordinary assistance on a case-by-case basis, including repatriation to Canada, in line with a policy framework adopted in 2021.
Human Rights Watch said that since the destruction of the Daesh “caliphate” across Iraq and Syria in 2019, more than 42,400 foreign adults and the children with the alleged links to the militant group had been held in camps in Syria.
