Detainees Home: Page Report and Northeast Syria

detainees home: One of those children is a five-year-old orphan known as Amira who was found on the side of a road last year after her parents and siblings were killed in an airstrike and whose case has been raised with the federal Liberal government in the past, according to CTV. The government of Canada is flouting its international human rights obligations toward Canadians who are arbitrarily detained in northeast Syria, reads the 92-page report, which included interviews with detainees, families and Canadian and foreign officials. The accusation by New York-based Human Rights Watch is contained in a scathing report released Monday that calls on Ottawa to immediately begin bringing the detainees home -- starting with the 26 Canadian children known to be in the camps. The obligations that Canada has breached include taking necessary and reasonable steps to assist nationals abroad facing serious abuses including risks to life, torture, and inhuman and degrading treatment. Children were seen drinking worm-infested water while morality police hunted women who criticized ISIL. The Human Rights Watch report is the latest to take aim at the federal government when it comes to Canadians detained in northeastern Syria following the collapse of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It went on to paint a disturbing picture of conditions in the camps, with food and clean water in short supply while disease and violence are rife. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.