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The wife of an ISIS fighter has mysteriously died in her cell after Canada refused to repatriate her.
The 40-year-old Quebec woman, only known by her the initials F.J, escaped the Al-Roj camp in Syria, where she was detained for six years, in March. Three months later, she was arrested in Turkey and charged with membership in an armed terrorism group.
Despite being acquitted on October 15, she was found dead in her cell at Tarsus Closed Women’s Prison in Tarsus, southeast of Turkey on October 17th. She was the last Canadian woman detained in a Syrian camp for captured ISIS members.
Her lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, expressed suspicion over the circumstances of her death and has demanded that an autopsy be performed.
‘It just doesn’t make sense that after being acquitted on the 15th, within 48 hours, she was found dead,’ he told CTV News.