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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

France must rethink case of IS-linked women refused re-entry, rules ECHR

Women buying food at the 'Iraqi market' in Al Hawl camp, Syria, 2019
The Al-Hawl camp in Syria, one of the camps where the two women have been held after being captured in 2019. Photograph: Tessa Fox/AAP

The European court of human rights has condemned France over its refusal to repatriate French women who travelled to Syria with their partners to join Islamic State and are currently being held with their children at Kurdish-run prison camps.

The ruling will be studied closely by other countries who still have citizens detained in camps in north-eastern Syria, including the UK.

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