A civil society delegation that returned from northeastern Syria earlier this week says the federal government needs to immediately start providing full consular support to all Canadian citizens detained in the area.
The four-person delegation spent five days in the region and met with Canadian men, women and children who are being held in detention camps and prisons for suspected ISIS members and their families.
The federal government has said in the past that its ability to extend consular assistance to the detained Canadians is “extremely limited” due to security concerns.
But former Amnesty International Canada secretary general Alex Neve, who took part
