Please sign and share: https://www.change.org/p/i-forgot-what-the-sun-looks-like-free-jack-letts-and-all-canadian-detainees-in-ne-syria  Canada's Guantanamo Bay – where Muslims are off-shored beyond reach of law & rights, respect & dignity – is in NE Syria. Almost 50 Canadians – men, women & kids – are illegally detained there under conditions the UN calls akin to torture because Ottawa refuses to repatriate them. Severely malnourished children are forced to eat sand and dirt. There is no clean water or nutritious food. There are rarely diapers or sanitary towels. There is no medical care. There is no education. There is no privacy. There are no soft beds. There are no playgrounds. Where do the children play? Next to cesspools of human waste. Some children have fallen into them. Sewage floods their tents. Wild dogs roam the camps terrorizing people. The men’s prison cells are packed with bone-thin prisoners, many with amputated limbs. Detainees remain in the same position from 8 am to midnight because they are so tightly packed in, with 1 overflowing latrine for 80 people.

Human Rights Watch, The International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations, the US State Department, Save the Children and, in a rare show of cross-party unanimity,  a Canadian Parliamentary Committee, have all called for repatriation. 

One detainee, 27-year-old Jack Letts, jailed almost 6 years without charge, has forgotten what the sun looks like. Imagine the horror of never seeing blue skies and sunshine. Learn more about his case at https://homesnotbombs.blogspot.com/2022/03/canada-must-stop-monstering-jack-letts.html

The United Nations has condemned Canada’s role in this massive human rights violation: https://rabble.ca/columnists/un-slams-canadas-failure-to-repatriate-citizens-illegally-detained-in-syria/

The Canadians' captors have been clear: send an official government representative for a handover and the detainees will be released. Yet Ottawa prefers to keep men, women and children in appalling conditions in camps where 2-3 children die every week.

Last fall, MP Elizabeth May was joined by the mother of Jack Letts and other human rights organizers calling for repatriation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHAmlBoxqc

And last week, Canada held a secret hearing to try and prevent repatriation: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/after-top-secret-hearing-judge-to-decide-on-ordering-federal-government-to-repatriate-canadians-detained-in-syria-1.6230923

In June, 2022 we organized a landmark event as two Canadian MPs, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, internationally renowned human rights lawyer, & half dozen human rights advocates all called for the repatriation of the 44 Canadian citizens illegally held in NE Syria. Watch event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2u_ELJ06Xo&t=4304s

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