Edmonton ISIS women ordered to attend deradicalization program
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Helena Carson and Dina Kalouti returned to Canada from Syria in 2023.
An Alberta judge has ordered two Edmonton women captured in Syria during the defeat of the Islamic State to take part in a deradicalization program.
At a court appearance on Friday, Helena Carson and Dina Kalouti were told they must undergo counselling with the Organization for the Prevention of Violence.
Justice Suzanne Polkosnik approved an RCMP request to impose a terrorism peace bond on the sisters-in-law, who acknowledged living in ISIS territory for four years.
“We’re happy with the court’s decision today and we believe that it shows that my clients are absolutely no concern to the Canadian public, as they’ve maintained all along,” their lawyer Zachary Al-Khatib said outside the Edmonton courthouse.
He declined to answer questions about why they went to Syria.
Asked what was next for the women, he said they would “follow the court’s conditions and assure reasonable members of the public that they are productive members of society.”
Carson, 35, and Kalouti, 43, were among thousands of foreign nationals who flocked to the so-called Islamic State a decade ago despite the terror group’s record of atrocities.
When ISIS collapsed in 2019, they were captured by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters and held at a detention camp for women and children.
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