Australia failing its own citizens held in ‘sordid’ camps in Syria, UN experts say

Letter to government renews calls to repatriate citizens, including 30 children, held in conditions that meet the standard of torture'

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United Nations experts have accused Australia of failing to prevent the sheer obliteration of the rights" of its own citizens including children who are held in sordid" conditions in camps in north-eastern Syria.

In a move that humanitarian groups hope will intensify pressure on Australia to act, 12 UN special rapporteurs have written jointly to the government to raise concerns about 46 Australian citizens, including 30 children, held in the camps.

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