(Yle) The Foreign Ministry on Sunday said the mothers were repatriated together with their children and that these eight people were now in the care of Finnish authorities.
This is the first time the government repatriated mothers from Syria. The Foreign Ministry previously fetched two orphaned children from the al-Hol displacement camp. Other Finns fleeing from the camp in northeastern Syria have made their own way back to Finland. In practice, people have only been able to leave the camp with the help of smugglers or Kurdish officials from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES).
