Human rights group urges Kamla to repatriate TT nationals from Syria, Iraq - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

According to the Trinidad-Tupago Prime Minister, Kamel Persad-Bissesar, in which she was invited to take immediate steps to return more than 90 citizens of this Caribbean Republic, including more than 50 children, are still being held in camps and prisons in Iraq and north-east Syria. According to a report of the Trinidad-Tupago site translated by the Shafaq News Agency, the Director of the Children's Rights Section of Human Rights Watch, Joe Ba…

Human rights group urges Kamla to repatriate TT nationals from Syria, Iraq - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to take immediate steps to repatriate more than 90 Trinidad and Tobago nationals, including over 50 children, who remain detained in war-torn camps and prisons in northeast Syria and Iraq. In a letter addressed to Persad-Bissessar, HRW children’s rights advocacy director Jo Becker commended her past support for repatriation efforts and urged her to translate that advoca…