Supreme Court Rejects Reconsideration Request in Case of Canadian Detainees in Northeast Syria, Rubberstamping Their Banishment
“I’ve been screaming about this for 7 1/2 years now,” said Sally Lane, the mother of Jack Letts. “I’m exhausted. I just want my son back.”
In a late afternoon announcement on Friday, November 1, the Supreme Court of Canada announced it would not hear the request for reconsideration of an earlier decision not to hear an appeal in a case dealing with the repatriation of four Canadian men arbitrarily detained for up to 7.5 years under dire conditions in Northeast Syria. It came almost a full year after the Court refused last November to hear the original appeal, and bookended a dramatic week in which it was revealed that a Canadian mother of six previously denied repatriation from Northeast Syria had died under suspicious circumstances in a Turkish deportation facility.
“This leaves my son Jack & the other detainees under an indefinite state of exile with a Canadian judicial stamp of approval,” said Sally Lane, who's fought to bring her son home for a decade. “What does it say about our country’s highest court when they see clear injustice taking place yet fail to even consider the case? The evidence showed it's very easy to repatriate the men, yet the govt refuses to assist, even though Federal Court judge who heard original case said: ‘Canadians are dying or at risk of dying every day this matter is adjourned.’”
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