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Australia repatriates Australian women and children from Syrian refugee camp
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SYDNEY, 30 October 2022, (TON): Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said “the Australian government has repatriated four Australian women and their 13 children from a Syrian refugee camp.”
The repatriation to New South Wales state, criticized by the Liberal-National opposition, is part of bringing back from Syria dozens of Australian women and children who are relatives of dead or jailed fighters from the so-called Daesh group.
Australia rescued eight children and grandchildren of two dead Daesh fighters from a Syrian refugee camp in 2019 but has held off repatriating any others until now.
O’Neil said in a statement “the decision to repatriate these women and their children was informed by individual assessments following detailed work by national security agencies.”
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