Two children die each week, on average, in these inhumane camps in North East Syria. The UK Government has the power to bring British women and children home, but is refusing to do so.
A small group of British women and children, some 25 families, are unlawfully detained in desert camps in North East Syria. While they have been vilified in the media, Reprieve’s investigations have shown that the majority were trafficked to the region, often after being groomed online as teenagers, by ISIS.
The situation in these camps is dire. Women and children suffer from a lack of food and clean water, and live in fear of violence and tent fires which are sometimes deliberately started by other prisoners. Medical care is limited, and children have little access to education.
As British citizens, we all have the right to return to our home, whatever the circumstances.
Abandoning these British families amounts to a de facto death sentence, given the risks they face every single day. The longer they are unlawfully detained, the more likely they could be transferred to Iraq or Assad-controlled Syria, where they would face torture, disappearance and death.
The UK Government can bring British women and children back home. But instead, it has abandoned them.
Will you join us as we demand that the UK Government bring these women and children home?
