On November 1, 2022, 31-year-old German Zuhal A. and her four children arrived
at an airport near Frankfurt, returned from a Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic
Forces (SDF)-managed camp in Northeast Syria. According to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Germany has now concluded its repatriations of allegedly
ISIS-affiliated women and minors.





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CEP Webinar: A New Momentum – The Repatriation And Prosecution Of Alleged
European ISIS Affiliates From Northeast Syria In 2022



(New York, N.Y. / Berlin) – On November 1, 2022, 31-year-old German Zuhal A.
and her four children arrived at an airport near Frankfurt, returned from a
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)-managed camp in Northeast Syria.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany has nowconcluded
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its repatriations of allegedly ISIS-affiliated women and minors. It argued that
the remaining women did not wish to return, which means that their children
will also stay, as they will not be repatriated without their mothers. The
mission was carried out in cooperation with the Netherlands, who repatriated 11
women and 33 minors. After years of refusal, France finally resumed
repatriating French minors and adult women in July 2022. Still, several hundred
European women, men, and minors remain in Northeast Syria.



While there is no consensus whether states of origin have a legal obligation
to repatriate their citizens from Northeast Syria, the urgent need for
repatriation of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and their families has become
evident from a humanitarian, legal, and security perspective. In the context of
mounting national and international pressure, several Western governments have
increased repatriations of European women and minors from the camps in the
course of 2022.



The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is thus delighted to invite you to this
webinar to discuss recent repatriation missions of European nationals, the role
of the September 2022 verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as
well as challenges in the prosecution of returnees in their home countries,
including in Germany, France, and the Netherlands.



CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller will present some results of her
research project on European returnees, including policy papers on recent
developments in repatriation (co-authored with Carlotta Sallach and Alexander
Schiele) as well as on the prosecution of returnees in France andGermany.
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Tanya Mehra from ICCT will focus on legal and practical implications of the
ECtHR decision
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as well as repatriation and prosecution in theNetherlands
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comparison to other European countries.



The webinar will be conducted in English via Zoom.



Date: December 6, 2022

Time: 10:00 a.m. ET / 16:00 CET to 11:00 am ET / 17:00 CET



EVENT PROGRAM:



Presenters:



Sofia Koller

Senior Research Analyst, Counter Extremism Project



Tanya Mehra LL.M

Senior Research Fellow and Programme Lead (Rule of Law Responses to Terrorism)
at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague



Moderator and Introductory Remarks:



Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler

Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project



The presentations will be followed by a Q&A-session open to all participants.



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