Belgian Mother and Children to Be Repatriated from Syrian Camp Within 75 Days

A year after her father’s allegiance to Al-Qaeda and his departure for the Islamic State, Hafsa Sliti, the young Belgian woman, joined him in January 2015 with her two children.

Now trapped in a Kurdish camp targeted by Turkish militias, she had expressed her regrets last year to a journalist and the risk she took on a whim, wishing from then on to serve her sentence in her country, reports 7sur7.be.

With the support of her lawyer, Nicolas Cohen, the young woman had appealed for the Belgian authorities to issue her travel documents. These documents could be transmitted to an NGO that would then intervene with the Kurdish guards of the camp to facilitate their repatriation.

According to the lawyer, the court ruled that the children have a subjective right to protection, which must be assumed by the Belgian state, recalling that the mother and children have the right to be protected against inhuman and degrading treatment, and recognizing that the three must have consular protection from the authorities.

"The judge also found that the State was indeed able to act, since it had already repatriated several children last June. The decision is enforceable, which means that even if the State appeals, it must still apply it pending the verdict of the Court," reassures Me Cohen.