Canada to repatriate British-born 'Jihadi Jack' along with 22 others held in IS camps in Syria
Canada has been ordered to repatriate 23 Canadian citizens being held in Islamic State prison camps in Syria - including British-born Muslim convert Jack Letts, it is understood.
Letts, who had held dual UK and Canadian citizenship, left his family home in Oxford in 2014 to allegedly fight with IS as a teenager.Known as"Jihadi Jack", Letts was stripped of his British citizenship in 2019 by the Home Office. In a ruling late on Friday, the Canadian federal court said the government must bring home four Canadian men - after an agreement was reached earlier this week to repatriate six women and 13 children also being held in camps in northeast Syria.
It follows a court case brought against the government by the detainees' relatives who argued that preventing them from returning to Canada would violate their constitutional rights. Federal court judge Henry Brown directed the government to request the repatriation of the men as soon as reasonably possible and provide them with passports or emergency travel documents.
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