U.N. expert decries the practice of taking boys from their mothers at detention camps in Syria -
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, an independent U.N. rapporteur on the protection of rights while countering terrorism, aired concerns Friday about lingering “mass arbitrary detention” in the infamous al-Hol camp and others like it that she saw during her trip to the region this week - billed as the first visit of its kind by an independent human rights expert.
Ni Aolain said her team’s experts have calculated that since 2019, some 7,000 people have been repatriated by some 36 countries - more than three-quarters of them women and children. The Kurdish officials fear that kids who grow up in the camp could give rise to a new generation of violent extremists.
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