On Friday 2 July, speaking as a “third party” in two cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights published her observations on the fate of French nationals detained in camps in north-eastern Syria.
Filed by parents and grandparents, these cases concern the refusal of the French authorities to repatriate their daughters and grandchildren detained under the military authority of the Syrian armed forces at the Al-Hol camp.
According...