Australian citizens with alleged IS ties depart Syria’s Roj camp for repatriation
Thirty-four Australian women and children with alleged IS links left Roj camp for Damascus but were returned due to coordination issues, camp officials said.
- A group of 34 Australian citizens from 11 families with alleged ties to IS left Syria's Roj camp on Monday to begin their journey back to Australia, accompanied by relatives.
- Roj camp houses around 2,200 people from 50 nationalities, mostly women and children, with supposed links to the Islamic State militant group.
- Human rights groups have criticized the poor living conditions and violence in the camps, but many countries have been reluctant to repatriate their citizens detained there.
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Australian IS families in Syria camp turned back after leaving for home
The group of 34 women and children with family links to Islamic State group have been held in the Roj camp for nearly seven years. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source The post Australian IS families in Syria camp turned back after leaving for home appeared first on RocketNews.
34 Australians released from Syrian IS camp returned over technical reasons
Hukmiya Mohamed, a co-director of Roj camp, told Reuters that the 34 Australians had been handed to members of their families who had come to Syria for the release. They were put on small buses for Damascus ahead of their departure from the country with a military escort.
Australians released from Syria IS camp return due to ’issues’
Thirty-four Australian relatives of suspected Islamic State members had to return to Syria's Roj detention camp due to coordination issues with Damascus after Kurdish authorities released them on Monday, a Kurdish official told AFP. Camp director Hakmieh Ibrahim had earlier said the women and children from 11 families were handed over to relatives "who have come from Australia to collect them". An AFP photographer had seen women - some fully vei…
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