UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday that 55,000 former ISIS fighters, including foreigners, and their families detained in Syria and Iraq should face fair prosecution or be freed.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday that 55,000 former ISIS fighters, including foreigners, and their families detained in Syria and Iraq should face fair prosecution or be freed.<\/p>\n States \u201cmust assume responsibility for their nationals\u201d and should not inflict statelessness on fighters\u2019 children who have already suffered so much, Bachelet told the UN Human Rights Council as it opened a three-week session in Geneva.<\/p>\n Bachelet also called for countries to deport family members of suspected foreign fighters in Syria, including some 29,000 foreign children of ISIS extremists.<\/p>\n \u201cForeign family members should be deported,\u201d she said, stressing that countries under no circumstances should render people, and especially children, stateless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday that 55,000 former ISIS fighters, including foreigners, and their families detained in Syria and Iraq should face fair prosecution or be freed. \u00a0 UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday that 55,000 former ISIS fighters, including foreigners, and their families detained in Syria and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[292,1375,33,85,41],"class_list":["post-7676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-children","tag-foreigners","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"\n