Mother and son offered evacuation from Syria

The Danish Foreign Ministry has offered evacuation to a mother and her eight-year-old son from the al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria. This decision follows a Supreme Court ruling that the Ministry has a duty to provide evacuation after previous courts had ruled only the boy was to be offered repatriation. The mother had lost her Danish citizenship in October 2020 for joining ISIS in 2014 and only holds Somali citizenship; however, the Supreme Court found denying her evacuation breached human rights conventions. The son, suffering health issues including respiratory, ear, nose, throat problems and symptoms of anxiety and depression, has been in the camp since 2019. His evacuation was deemed urgent by a visiting medical group. The decision to evacuate the mother and son was not unanimous among the five Supreme Court judges.