(Yle) Finland’s failure to repatriate Finnish children living in Syrian camps was a violation of children’s rights, according to a decision by the UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) published on Wednesday.
The committee said its decision was based on a case filed on behalf of six Finnish children held at the al-Hol camp in Syria. The children were born in Syria to parents who “have allegedly collaborated with Da’esh, the ISIL terrorist group,” the CRC said.
The case was filed with the UN committee in 2019.
Since then, three of those children were able to leave the camp with their mother and arrived in Finland.
