Austria: Justice decided repatriation for a jihadist woman and her children

Austrian justice today ordered the government to repatriate a jihadist woman and her two children held in a camp in Syria, in the name of “the best interests of the child”, according to the court. “The joint repatriation of the applicants to Austria must take place,” the national administrative court ruled, calling on the government to respect the “principle of equality” and the welfare of the children, according to the statement obtained by AFP. The Austrian-born woman, who left to join the Islamic State group aged 17 in 2017, had two children with two Islamic militia fighters and continues to live with them in Kurdish concentration camps after IS was disbanded in 2019. The government can appeal The woman was asking to be repatriated but the State Department would only accept the return of the children, stating that she had voluntarily gone to an area that was contraindicated and therefore the woman […]
Source: News Beast

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