(Xinhua) A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday called on Canada to urgently repatriate from Syria a woman who has life-threatening illnesses.
The woman, named Kimberly Polman and a Canadian national, has been detained at various camps since March 2019 absent any legal charges or legal process. She is currently held at Roj camp in Syria’s northeast under conditions “meeting the threshold of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,” the experts said.
According to the experts, she traveled to Syria in 2015 at the behest of her future husband whom she met online.
“Victims or potential victims of trafficking should not be placed in situations that expose them to multiple forms of abuses,” the experts said in a statement.
