Australia has no legal obligation to repatriate 31 women and children held in Syrian camp, court rules
by Henry Belot from World news | The Guardian on (#6G302)
Most of the Australians have been held in the Roj detention camp in north-east Syria for four years
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The federal government does not have a legal obligation to repatriate 31 Australian women and children who have been forcibly held in a Syrian detention camp for four years, a court has ruled.
The Australians are the wives, widows and children of slain or jailed Islamic State fighters. Most have been held in the squalid Roj detention camp in north-east Syria for four years. None have been charged with a crime or currently face a warrant for arrest.
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