The Danish government is starting work to bring home three IS women who are Danish citizens and their total of 14 children from the Kurdish prison camps in Syria, reports Danish radio.
The message came at a press conference on Tuesday night.
According to DR, the decision was made after a Danish delegation visited the Kurdish-controlled prison camps in Syria.
The delegation is said to have met two of the three Danish women whom the government has now decided to try to take home with their children.
- The women must be punished as severely as possible when they come to Denmark.
They must be held accountable for what they have done, said Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup (S) at the press conference.
The government has turned
In the past, the Danish government has refused to take the women and children home from the camps.
Now they announce that they want to help the children and that it is not possible to do without the mothers, writes DR.
Recently, Finland also decided that all Finnish children in the concentration camps in Syria should be taken home.
Earlier this year, the UN sharply criticized Sweden, among others, for not taking its citizens home from the camps.
But pending criminal investigations, and possible trials, it is not relevant to send Swedish women home from the camps, which SVT has previously reported on.