A woman holding a child by the hand in the al-Hol camp for displaced people in northeastern Syria, where families of Islamic State foreign fighters are held, in 2020. (Credit: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
PARIS — The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that France must re-examine the repatriation requests of two French women who traveled to Syria with their partners to join the Islamic State, and the children they gave birth to there.
The court ruled that France's refusal to repatriate the women and children was in violation of the rights to "enter the territory of the state of which [one] is a national."
Reporting by Layli Foroudi, Editing by Dominique Vidalon and Tomasz Janowski
PARIS — The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that France must re-examine the repatriation requests of two French women who traveled to Syria with their partners to join the Islamic State, and the children they gave birth to there.The court ruled that France's refusal to repatriate the women and children was in violation of the rights to "enter the territory of the state of...