During a five-day mission to Northeast Syria, a Canadian civil society delegation met with officials and visited Canadian men, as well as non-Canadian mothers of Canadian children, who remain held in camps and detention centres in the region. They asked the Canadian Government to take immediate action to help secure the release of these men, some of whom have been held for over five years. The delegation presented a report in Ottawa on Thursday after returning from a visit to the region that is home to camps filled with accused members and family members of Islamic State (ISIS) members.
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