French female Daesh members begin hunger strike in Syria, demand return
Dorothee Maquere, wife of French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain, is pictured at a screening area in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, after fleeing the Daesh group s embattled holdout of Baghouz, on 5 March 2019, during an operation by US-backed Syrian forces to expel Daesh jihadist from the area. [DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images] February 23, 2021 at 12:01 pm
Ten French women who joined Daesh and are now being held in Syria, began a hunger strike to protest France s refusal to repatriate them or their children, their lawyers said.
Marie Dosé and Ludovic Rivière, the women s lawyers, said in a joint statement that the women should be tried in France, and that for more than two years they have been waiting to pay for what they have done .
In a desperate appeal to France’s government, some 10 Frenchwomen who joined the Islamic State group and are now being held in detention camps in Syria began a hunger strike Saturday, protesting the government’s refusal to bring them home for trial.
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