(CTV) A total of 29 Canadians have been freed from detention camps in northeast Syria and brought back to Canada since human rights advocates began lobbying for their release years ago.
In an email, Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon, who represented children who were repatriated days ago, said that since repatriation efforts began in 2020, a total of 22 children and seven women have come home.
The most recent repatriation took place earlier this week when the six children of a Quebec woman were brought back to Montreal on a flight organized by Global Affairs Canada.
The two girls and four boys, who have no family in Canada, have been placed under the care of social workers from the Clinique de Polarization in Montreal.
