Australia has no legal obligation to repatriate 31 women and children held in Syrian camp, court rules
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.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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