'We didn't think it was an actual possibility'Īn audio recording from April 11 between the mother of one of the women and a Global Affairs official suggests allies warned Canada that sometimes citizens don't show up for repatriation flights at designated pick-up points. Repatriation of Canadian women and children detained in Syrian camps underway, says lawyer.RCMP arrest 3 Canadian women after repatriation from camps in northeastern Syria.
WATCH | Canada's plan to get families out of Syria led to 'mistreatment', lawyer says The camps hold ISIS suspects and their family members. The Al-Roj camp is the location the Canadian government used as a meeting place earlier this month for those it brought back to Canada. Global Affairs Canada said it now has credible information indicating the five Canadians are at Al-Roj camp. He said he doesn't know why his clients were in Syria and he hasn't seen a "shred of evidence these two women travelled for the purposes of joining ISIS."
They wanted to come back to Canada."Īl-Khatib said the women require medical attention and are in need of assistance. "There was a very short proof-of-life call. "They were in real distress," Al-Khatib said. The woman said the five of them had been detained and mistreated by Kurdish authorities in what's known as "Red Prison" at al-Hol camp and at a second prison, said Al-Khatib. The women have been missing ever since the repatriation flight to Canada took off without them more than 10 days ago.Įdmonton lawyer Zachary Al-Khatib told CBC News that one of the women was able to make a short phone call to a relative Tuesday before the line dropped after 4 minutes. Two Canadian women and three teenage girls who were set to be repatriated from camps for family members of ISIS suspects in Syria were instead detained and mistreated by their Kurdish guards rather than being taken to their pick-up point, their lawyer says.
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