What Is the Controversy on Repatriations From Syria About?

Editor’s Note: This article offers a short summary of the origins of a recent European Court of Human Rights ruling and the stakes involved. You can read more about the ruling in the author’s previous article.

In a recent judgment, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) called out France for ignoring requests by family members to repatriate their daughters and children. Three years after the military defeat of the Islamic State in Syria, thousands of foreign women and children indeed remain in de facto detention in camps run by the former Kurdish Syrian Democratic For

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