(Global News) The families of more than two dozen Canadians held at prisons and camps for ISIS detainees in Syria have filed a case in the Federal Court accusing the government of failing to bring them home.
Eleven families, which were not identified by name, alleged Ottawa had failed “to take all reasonable steps” to repatriate Canadian detainees captured by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces.
“All applicant family members are detained arbitrarily and unlawfully,” they alleged in the court application, filed in Ottawa on Monday by lawyer Lawrence Greenspon.
The case was filed on behalf of 14 children, eight women and four men who are being held at the Al Hol and Roj camps, as well as prisons in Hasakah, Qamishli and Derik.
