(CBC) A lawyer representing five Canadians held in a detention camp in northeastern Syria says he’s been given assurances the federal government will repatriate them, but doesn’t know when that will happen.
The two Canadian women and three teenage girls were supposed to board a repatriation flight last month with 14 other Canadians. But they never made it.
The five Canadians went missing for more than 10 days, and later reported being detained and mistreated by their Kurdish guards rather than being transported to the pick-up point at al-Roj camp, according to their lawyers.
Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon says Global Affairs Canada has now informed him it “obtained assurances that Kurdish authorities will facilitate” efforts to hand over the five people to be brought to Canada. But the government didn’t say when that could happen.
