GET JACK BACK.
Jack Letts is a Canadian citizen and torture survivor who has been illegally imprisoned without charge in Northern Syria since May 2017 in Guantanamo-like conditions.
Sign this petition to Free Jack and all Canadian children, women and men detained arbitrarily in NE Syria.
It is the duty of the Canadian government to repatriate him and all other Canadians detained there.
Bring Jack home to access medical care and trauma counselling
“Jack is a Canadian citizen who, as an idealistic, compassionate teenager, went to Syria to help the victims of the Assad regime’s brutal war against its own people. Trapped in the chaos of the war, Jack desperately tried to escape, but found himself detained and tortured. As his parents, we beg the Canadian government to repatriate him from the Guantanamo-like conditions he is enduring, and bring him home so he can receive treatment for the physical and psychological wounds he carries. We equally support bringing home all the other illegally detained Canadian children, women and men held in Northeast Syria.”
Please help Jack’s parents by writing to your MP in Canada, signing our petition, signing our open letter and spreading the word on social media:
“A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian…”
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
“I hope people remember to demand of governments, this one and all future governments, that nobody ever has their fundamental rights violated either through inaction or deliberate action by Canadian governments. Nobody ever deserves to be tortured. And when a Canadian government is either complicit in that or was not active enough in preventing it, there needs to be a responsibility taken.” Justin Trudeau, October 26, 2017, three months after his government knew Jack had been tortured.
“The Trudeau government has dragged its feet, doing little to nothing to bring an end to the Canadians’ misery.”
"I’m scared of electricity. It’s one of my fears. I’ve actually been tortured.”
Jack Letts in communication with Global Affairs Canada, 2017
“The government of Canada is flouting its international human rights obligations toward Canadians who are arbitrarily detained in northeast Syria and providing inadequate support to family members seeking to provide their loved ones with essentials such as food and medicine, and to bring them home.
The obligations that Canada has breached include taking necessary and reasonable steps to assist nationals abroad facing serious abuses including risks to life, torture, and inhuman and degrading treatment.”
— Human Rights Watch, June 29 2020
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
freejackletts@gmail.com