(Dutch News) Talks have begun between the Netherlands and Iraq to repatriate 10 women and their children being held in Kurdish refugee camps after they went to join the civil war in Syria.
The Dutch government is trying to organise safe passage for the women to the Dutch consulate in the Iraqi city of Erbil without them being prosecuted in Iraq, where they could face the death penalty.
The foreign ministry’s policy is not to offer any assistance to Syrian war veterans who want to return to the Netherlands. However, the district court in Rotterdam has ordered the extradition of five women who have been prosecuted for allegedly belonging to a terrorist organisation, leaving the government in a quandary.
