Forty -seven French citizens who were held in Syria for suspicion of membership in the extremist group Islamic State (IS) were handed over to Iraq for criminal prosecution. On Thursday, AP announced this Iraqi security officials on the condition of maintaining anonymity, TASR writes.
Before the French a month ago and a half were handed over to the hands of Iraq, were held in one of the networks of retention devices in northeastern Syria, where is placed approximately 9000 accused members of the IS Kurdish Syrian democratic forces (SDF) supported by the US, representatives said.
In the past, French citizens were accused of sending IS membership from Syria to Iraq. In 2019, 13 suspected French militants were transported from Syria to Iraq. Thousands of Iraqi citizens detained in Syria were also issued to court in Iraq. Iraqi leaders said that SDF handed over to Iraq a total of 3192 prisoners, from which 724 was sentenced to death and 1381 to life imprisonment.
On the basis of an agreement signed in March between the SDF and the new government in Damascus, the SDF is to hand over the Damascus detention centers and the Damascus detention facilities, However, progress in its implementation is slow, AP notes.
In addition to the former IS members, there are tens of thousands of other people with alleged ties to this group, most of whom are wives and children of militants. The US army has been urging countries whose citizens are located in camps and retention facilities to repatriate them. On Wednesday, France announced that three French women and ten children who were in camps in northeastern Syria were repatriated.
