UN expert denounces detention of children in Syria
NEW YORK – A U.N. expert has expressed concern about the arbitrary detention of tens of thousands of children in northeastern Syria.
These children belong to parents detained for their allegiance to terrorist group ISIS.
Expert Fionnuala Ni Aolain said the children are being detained because their parents pose a security threat.
She added that it is absolutely against international law to detain children under any circumstances.
Ni Aolain also expressed concern that hundreds of children are separated from their mothers in camps.
Among other places, she visited the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which houses some 55,000 people, including 31,000 children.
It also houses nationals of Western countries who remain there despite pleas from the U.N. to take them back.
Ni Aolain described conditions in al-Hol as “terrible and extreme.”
She said the temperature during her visit was 50 degrees Celsius, or 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
The U.N. expert called on authorities in northeastern Syria to release the children and reunite them with their families.
She also called on foreign countries to repatriate their citizens held in the camps.
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