Lawyers representing a group of T&T nationals and their children who were left stranded in refugee camps following the collapse of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have threatened to file yet another lawsuit over the failure of the State to facilitate their repatriations. The latest legal threat came in a pre-action protocol…
The Syrian civil war which started a decade ago and has claimed more than 400,000 lives, has created “the biggest humanitarian and refugee crisis of our time and a continuing cause for suffering,” according to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. Among the approximately 6.1 million children affected by that conflict are 65…
ATTORNEY Nafeesa Mohammed has said there are still 24 women from Trinidad and Tobago and 70 children stuck in detention camps in Syria. She said she has not stopped advocating for them to be able to return to this country and reunite with their families. In 2018, Dr Simon Cottee, professor of criminology from the…
Many children repatriated from detention camps for Islamic State (ISIS) suspects and their families in northeast Syria are successfully reintegrating in their home countries, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Trinidad and Tobago should act urgently to allow the return of an estimated 70 children and 25 women from Trinidad and Tobago who…
Relatives of Trinidad and Tobago nationals stuck in refugee camps in Syria are questioning the “challenges” that Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds referred to last week in bringing these individuals home. He responded to a question from Independent Senator Paul Richards, who asked him to give an update on the work of the Cabinet-appointed…
The government of Trinidad and Tobago should urgently bring home Trinidadian children and their mothers imprisoned in Iraq because of their alleged association with the Islamic State (ISIS), Human Rights Watch said today. Four Trinidadian women have been held along with their seven children, aged approximately 7 to 15, for nearly seven years. On May 2, 2024, Iraqi prison…
Poonam makes the long journey home from Syria. She arranges to meet Ash. They sit down on the same bench and she talks to him about what she’s found. Meanwhile, DA has been repatriated to Canada with her children. We follow her story as she goes through the justice system. Poonam also catches up…
Poonam makes the perilous journey to the last known location of baby Salmaan, a guesthouse near where IS made its last stand. But IS sleeper cells still lurk in the desert and Poonam only has one hour on the ground – can she find what she needs in time?
Poonam returns to DA, now knowing her true identity. What was IS like through her eyes? What can she tell Poonam about some of the terror group’s most heinous crimes?
Poonam finally gets into the prison camp where the women and children of suspected IS fighters are being held. There, she meets a Canadian woman who has information about baby Salmaan. But it’s clear she isn’t telling Poonam everything.
