At least 2 Canadian women and their children returning from ISIS detention camp Source said they've learned Canadian Kimberly Polman has left the camp

October 25, 2022 , and   

(CBC) At least two Canadian women have left a detention camp in Syria and will be arriving in Canada on Wednesday morning, CBC News has learned.

The women left the al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria — which holds women allegedly tied to ISIS and their children — and were headed for northern Iraq on Tuesday morning with an unknown number of children, according to multiple sources.

Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon said he has learned that Kimberly Polman, his client, is out of the camp and her tent has been taken down.

Greenspon said Global Affairs Canada told him Polman and the others being repatriated are all expected to arrive in Montreal on Wednesday.

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