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How the so-called 'ISIS brides' made their way from Syria to Australia

By political reporter Sara Tomevska

Topic:Extremism

 

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The women and children left the Al Roj camp in Syria late in April, with plans to travel to Australia. (ABC News: Baderkhan Ahmad)

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After a failed attempt and months of waiting for their next opportunity, four women and nine children will tonight land in Sydney and Melbourne, after almost seven years in a Syrian detention camp.

Their journey has been shrouded in secrecy and political debate has swirled around the return of the so-called 'ISIS brides', who Labor ministers and the prime minister have repeatedly, publicly condemned for their involvement with ISIS fighters.

Authorities have been preparing for their return for years, with the federal government acutely aware of its limitations in preventing Australian citizens from returning home.

Yesterday, the federal government received official notification that the flights were booked, and federal police swiftly confirmed some of the cohort would face charges once in Australia.

Despite opposition accusations that Labor facilitated the return, the government insists it has not assisted the group, other than to fulfil its legal obligation of supplying passports.

Former Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo, who oversaw the repatriation of 23 women and children from Syria under the Morrison and Albanese governments, describes their home journey as an "inevitability".

So, how did they get out? And what happens next?

The path to passports

Another practical reason for the delay was the lengthy process required to secure passports for the children, which required DNA testing to establish citizenship by descent, given that most of them were born in Syria.

While the Department of Home Affairs would not reveal when passports were issued, the ABC has been told the documents were applied for late last year and issued in January.

Under Australian law, all citizens are entitled to a passport and can authorise any other person, regardless of relationship, to pick up a passport on their behalf, or on behalf of their children.

That is exactly what happened when Sydney doctor and community advocate Jamal Rifi picked up the documents and took them to Damascus in January.

Jamal Rifi helped deliver the group's Australian passports.  (ABC/Docker Media)

Mr Rifi told the ABC he travelled to Syria as a passport "delivery boy".

"There is a firm of legal practitioners who provided their services pro bono; they made the application to renew some of the passports and obtain a new passport for those children," he said.

"I paid for the cost for the citizenship by descent [for the children]."