Syria: jihadist prisoners crowded into a Kurdish prison awaiting their fate

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The jihadist prison camps in northeastern Syria are filled with terrorists living in difficult conditions. RFI / Thibault Lefébure

By: Noé Pignède Follow

In north-eastern Syria, nearly 20,000 suspected jihadists are still believed to be held in the prisons of the Syrian democratic forces, a coalition of Arab-Kurdish militias supported by the West in the war against the Islamic State organization.

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Among them, Syrians, Iraqis, but also thousands of Westerners await to be fixed on their fate, but for the moment no body to judge them has been set up, and most of their countries d origin refuse to repatriate them.

Our special envoy to Syria was able to enter one of these prisons, where these suspected terrorists are detained in miserable conditions.

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  • EI
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