A general view of the Karama camp for internally displaced Syrians is shown, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 by the village of Atma, Idlib province, Syria. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Omar Albam
OTTAWA – A lawyer for two Canadian women who just returned from Syria says they were arrested by the RCMP today and will face a bail hearing in Brampton, Ont.
Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon says the women have not been charged criminally but the Crown is seeking terrorist peace bonds that would place strict conditions on them.
The two are among four Canadian women and 10 children who arrived in Canada after being freed from prison camps in northeastern Syria.
The Canadians were among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war-ravaged region from the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The long-anticipated flight to Canada had been expected to bring more people home.
Greenspon reached an agreement with the federal government in January to repatriate six Canadian women and 13 children who had been part of a court action.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 6, 2023.
