Mother of Canadian detained in Syria accuses of Ottawa of shirking duty to help
OTTAWA – The mother of a Canadian man being held in northeastern Syria accuses the federal government of doing “precisely nothing” to secure his release.
Sally Lane is urging the Liberal government to send a delegate overseas to help free son Jack Letts and other Canadians detained in atrocious conditions.
Letts, who turned 27 this week, is one of several Canadian citizens among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war-torn region from the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Letts has spent almost his entire life in the UK. They don’t want him either. The jerk’s parents were convicted under Brit terrorism laws of sending him money. He knew what he signed up for and is no babe in the woods.
