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2 Canadian women who returned from Syrian camp to be released on bail

WATCH: Some Canadian women and their children, who've been held for years in detention camps for family members of suspected ISIS militants, are leaving Syria and headed back to Canada. Touria Izri looks at the repatriation of the detainees, and the murky legal situation they face upon their returns – Apr 5, 2023

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Ontario judges have ordered that two women who were arrested upon returning to Canada last week from a prison camp in northeastern Syria be released on bail.

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Ammara Amjad and Dure Ahmed were ordered released on bail pending terrorism peace bond applications, under conditions that cannot be detailed because they are subject to publication bans.

The two women appeared Tuesday at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton, Ont. for separate bail hearings.

They were among four Canadian women and 10 children who landed in Montreal last week after being held for years at the al-Roj prison camp in northeastern Syria.

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