The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria said it would begin trying thousands of suspected foreign Islamic State fighters who have been its custody for years, surprising diplomats working on the issue and prompting concern about due process.
The U.S.-backed autonomous administration, which operates separately from the central government in Damascus, holds around 10,000 suspected IS detainees who fled the last bastions held by the militant Islamist group in Syria from 2017-2019.
Local officials have for years called on foreign countries - including Canada, France, the United Kingdom and others - to repatriate their nationals as well as the thousands of foreignOn Saturday, the Kurdish-led administration said in an online statement that it had decided to submit detainees to its own "open, free and transparent trials" following the international community's lagging response.
Senior administration official Badran Jia Kurd told Reuters a local counter-terrorism law broadened last year would be used to try the fighters, adding the accused could appoint a lawyer but did not say courts would appoint one for them.Jia Kurd said rights groups and the U.S.-led coalition, which helped Kurdish-led forces oust IS from swathes of northern Syrian territory, would be invited to attend the trials.
"No one thought they were going to do this. We take it very seriously that they are holding a lot of people – but this is a separate issue from trying them. Trying them is a whole different beast," the diplomat said.breakout by ISLetta Tayler, counter-terrorism specialist at Human Rights Watch, said the international community should either back the trials in northeast Syria - including with resources - or support prosecutions at home or in a third country.
"Anything less is not only a violation of these detainees' rights to due process. It's also a slap in the face to victims of IS and their family members, who deserve to see justice served for IS crimes," she told Reuters.Our Standards:
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