A Quebec mother of six, once detained in northeast Syria, has died while waiting for repatriation. The Canadian woman was known only by her initials F.J.
The federal government refused to repatriate her, but brought home her two daughters and four sons to Montreal earlier this year.
Global Affairs Canada’s position was that F.J. posed a security risk, and that there were no means to control her behaviour once she entered Canada.
“That excuse for not repatriating her was patently false,” says her Ottawa-based lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon. “We know that because we managed to bring eight Canadian women and 21 Canadian children, and some of those women are subject to very strict conditions from the moment they set foot in Canada.”
The forty-year-old died under mysterious circumstances in a Turkish deportation centre, according to Greenspon. He called her death an unnecessary tragedy.
Greenspon said F.J. escaped the Al-Roj camp in …