{"id":45721,"date":"2021-07-02T23:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=45721"},"modified":"2021-07-02T23:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T23:23:31","slug":"us-drops-sanctions-on-three-iranians-move-unrelated-to-nuclear-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=45721","title":{"rendered":"US drops sanctions on three Iranians, move unrelated to nuclear talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBEIRUT: Syria\u2019s Kurds Friday urged international help to set up rehabilitation centers for minors linked to the Daesh group, after charges they were holding \u201chundreds of children\u201d in adult prisons.<\/p>\n

Acknowledging that some extremist-linked minors were being held in adult prisons, separate to the many more in camps, senior Kurdish foreign affairs official Abdelkarim Omar told AFP around 30 teenagers have lately been transferred out of one overcrowded camp.<\/p>\n

He spoke just days after the International Committee of the Red Cross said \u201chundreds of children \u2014 mostly boys, some as young as 12 \u2014 are detained in adult prisons\u201d in northeast Syria.<\/p>\n

Kurdish authorities hold thousands of suspected extremist fighters in their jails, as well as tens of thousands of their relatives in camps for the displaced, after spearheading a US-backed battle against Daesh that formally ended in victory in early 2019.<\/p>\n

Omar told AFP an unspecified number of Deash-linked minors who are held in jails are kept in separate quarters to the adults.<\/p>\n

He said the region desperately needed more rehabilitation centers for teenagers, on top of a single one already housing some 120 near the city of Qamishli.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think children do not belong in either camps or prisons,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n

As a start, he said, \u201cbetween 30 to 35 children aged 12 and older have been taken out of Al-Hol camp.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kurds were preparing a new rehabilitation center in the city of Hasakah, which \u201cwill be ready in the coming days,\u201d Omar added.<\/p>\n

Since Kurdish-led fighters expelled Daesh from the last scrap of their territorial \u201ccaliphate\u201d in March 2019, Al-Hol has swelled to a tent city of some 62,000 people \u2014 civilians but also alleged Daesh relatives.<\/p>\n

The United Nations says it has documented \u201cradicalization\u201d in the camp, where the number of guards is limited and around 10,000 foreign Daesh-linked women and children lived in a separate annex.<\/p>\n

Fabrizio Carboni, head of ICRC\u2019s Middle East and Near East operations, on Wednesday described a \u201cpervasive sense of hopelessness\u201d in Al-Hol.<\/p>\n

Boys lived \u201cin a state of constant fear,\u201d as \u201conce they reach a certain age, many are separated from their families and transferred to adult places of detention,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

He called for children in detention to be \u201ceither reunited with their families in camps, repatriated alongside them or have alternative care arrangements made for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Omar, the Kurdish official, urged the international community to help it \u201cset up 15 or 16 centers to bring the children out of the jails, until a solution is found.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keeping them in their current \u201cenvironment will only lead to the emergence of a new generation of terrorists,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEIRUT: Syria\u2019s Kurds Friday urged international help to set up rehabilitation centers for minors linked to the Daesh group, after charges they were holding \u201chundreds of children\u201d in adult prisons.Acknowledging that some extremist-linked minors were being held in adult prisons, separate to the many more in camps, senior Kurdish foreign affairs official Abdelkarim Omar told…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}