(Al-Jazeera) Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to repatriate more than 160 Nordic nationals, most of whom are children, from northeast Syria.
As many as 30 Danes, 22 Finns, 37 Norwegians, and 65 to 75 Swedes are being detained in camps and makeshift prisons in the region, the rights group wrote in a letter sent to the foreign ministers of the four countries.
As many as 114 children, more than half of whom are under the age of six, are among those still in Syria, HRW said.
The detainees are among more than 40,000 foreign-born suspected ISIL (ISIS) fighters and their relatives who remain held in northeast Syria, more than two years after the group lost its last territorial stronghold in March 2019.
