(Global News) The family of a Canadian orphan living at a camp for ISIS detainees in Syria filed legal action against the federal government on Tuesday, alleging Ottawa is violating her rights by not bringing her home.
The case was filed in the Federal Court on behalf of a 5-year-old, Amira, whose Canadian parents and three siblings were killed in an airstrike during the collapse of ISIS in 2019.
Since then Amira has been living at Al-Hawl Camp, a facility in northeast Syria operated by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurdish fighters who defeated ISIS and are holding thousands of prisoners.
Her uncle, identified only as Ibrahim, a Toronto engineer, brought the case against the Canadian government after traveling to the region in an unsuccessful attempt to bring her back to Canada.
