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Sydney doctor was passport 'delivery boy' for IS-linked families in Syria
Jamal Rifi is a well-known Sydney doctor and community leader. (ABC/Docker Media)
A Sydney doctor trying to help families linked to Islamic State return to Australia says he is confident the women and children will eventually be repatriated.
Jamal Rifi, an Order of Australia recipient known for his advocacy in Muslim communities, made headlines last week when reports emerged he was helping the 34 Australian citizens stuck in a detention camp in Syria.
The group, consisting of 11 women and 23 children, had last Monday tried to leave the camp and make their journey onwards to Australia, but were forced to turn around by Syrian authorities shortly afterwards.
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Just after question time on 23 November 2022, the federal parliament debated a motion relating to the repatriation of four Australian women and 13 children who had been stuck in a Syrian detention camp since the fall of Islamic State three years prior.
One after another Labor MPs argued with passion, clarity and logic about why it was not just acceptable, but necessary and morally right, for the federal government to assist the return of its own citizens from the squalid and dangerous camps.
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I need to clarify why, as a doctor, I have been in Syria, helping with efforts to bring children and their mothers back to Australia. Thus far, given the sensitivities, and for the children’s sake, I have chosen not to enter the political debate that I have seen swirling at home. But now, while I am still in the Middle East, away from my beloved Australia, I must explain my role, dispel misinformation and respond to a particularly flawed policy proposal to make it a crime to assist in the repatriation of the 34 Australian citizens trapped in Syria’s detention camps.
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