NL must bring back more women from Syria to face trial: lawyer

(Dutch News) The Netherlands should … bring back a further eight Dutch women and their children from Syria, or they will escape trial on terrorism charges, their lawyer André Seebregts has told Trouw.

This weekend, the Netherlands brought back one woman and her two children from a Kurdish camp after judges said her trial on terrorism charges would be abandoned unless she was in court personally, as she had requested.

Ilham B, from Gouda, and her children aged two and five arrived back in the Netherlands on Sunday morning after being picked up by Dutch officials. A 12-year-old girl, taken from the Netherlands by her mother against her father’s will, was with them and will be reunited with her father.

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