OTTAWA—A judge has declared that four Canadian men being held in Syrian camps are entitled to the federal government’s help to return home.
In a ruling Friday, Federal Court Justice Henry Brown effectively directed Ottawa to request repatriation of the men as soon as reasonably possible and provide them with passports or emergency travel documents.
Brown said the men are also entitled to have a representative of the federal government travel to Syria to help facilitate their release once their captors agree to hand them over.
The Canadians are among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps and jails run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war−torn region from the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant….