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Australians with alleged IS ties are turned back after departing Syrian camp for repatriation
Prime Minister Albanese cites national security and legal concerns in refusing to repatriate 34 Australian women and children with alleged Islamic State links from Syrian detention camps.
- A group of 34 Australian women and children, with alleged ties to the Islamic State group, were released from a camp in northern Syria to return home but were turned back for "technical reasons".
- The Australian government has said it would not repatriate people from Syria, but it is obliged to issue passports to citizens who present themselves at an Australian embassy.
- The camp's director appealed to all countries to take their citizens, saying children were growing up surrounded by "dangerous ideas and ideologies".
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Australia will not repatriate citizens held in Syria over Islamic State links, PM say
Thirty-four Australians were briefly released from a northern Syria camp before being returned for technical reasons, as officials warn any returnees who broke the law will face prosecution
Australia refuses to repatriate ISIS-linked citizens in Syria as escape attempt fails
Australia will not repatriate its citizens with links to Islamic State members, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the national broadcaster on Tuesday, with a blunt message for families stranded in Syria: “If you make your bed, you lie in it.”
PM Albanese says no help for 34 Australians linked to Islamic State in Syrian camp
SYDNEY, Feb 17 — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refused help today for 34 Australian citizens related to suspected Islamic State jihadists, as they try to return home from a Syrian detention camp.The Australians were released from the Roj camp yesterday but failed to reach the capital Damascus because of “poor coordination” with the Syrian authorities, a Kurdish official told AFP in Syria.They were forced to return to the detention camp, said c…
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