NEWS IN DECEMBER 2020
29 December
194 Azerbaijani children were brought home from Iraq in 2020
In 2020, 194 Azerbaijani children detained in the Iraqi prisons were brought back to Azerbaijan and, after some rehabilitation period they were entrusted to the custody of their relatives. This information is published in the annual report of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to the official information of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Interior Affairs, 1,477 Azerbaijani citizens have gone to Syria and Iraq where they joined the illegal armed units. Thus, 903 people (749 men and 154 women) were killed or considered missing.
Earlier, in March 2020, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Sahav announced that 82 Azerbaijani children were repatriated to their homeland from the Iraqi prisons where they had been jailed along with their imprisoned mothers who had joined ISIS.