‘Indefinite torture’: Australian children held in Syrian camp feel abandoned as other countries repatriate citizens

Plea for repatriation comes as high court refused appeal brought by Save the Children to return Australian families of slain Islamic State fighters

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Australian children held in a Syrian detention camp for more than five years - some born in the camp and having never left it - are despairing as they watch hundreds of other foreign children leave for home.

They can't understand why they don't have a chance to be saved like the other Australians and given a shot at a normal life," one mother in the camp told Guardian Australia.

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