France has repatriated fifteen women and thirty-two children who were held in detention camps designated for former members of the terrorist organization of ISIS, in northeastern Syria, according to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The minors have been handed over to child care services and will be subject to medical and social follow-up,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that “adults have been handed over to the competent judicial authorities.”
On October 20, 2022, it repatriated fifteen French women and forty children, who were being held in camps in northeastern Syria, in the largest operation of this kind that France had carried out so far.
The United Nations Committee Against Torture concluded that France was violating the Convention against Torture by refusing to return women and children detained in camps in Syria because it is “obligated” to protect them.
