{"id":283,"date":"2020-11-29T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T08:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=128281"},"modified":"2020-11-29T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T08:35:05","slug":"uzbekistan-reportedly-planning-to-repatriate-citizens-from-syrian-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/11\/29\/uzbekistan-reportedly-planning-to-repatriate-citizens-from-syrian-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan Reportedly Planning To Repatriate Citizens From Syrian Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1ed37e34-2047-476b-bab6-1e8adca3cc1e_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>An unnamed Uzbek government source has said that Uzbekistan plans to repatriate another group of its citizens from a camp for families of Islamic State fighters in Syria, Reuters reported on November 29.<\/p>\n<p>An Uzbek delegation has visited two camps in the Kurdish-controlled part of Syria and spoken with about 100 Uzbek citizens \u2013 mostly women and children \u2013 about returning to Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>The source told Reuters that the Uzbeks are living &#8220;in deplorable conditions and have difficulties with access to drinking water, food, and medical care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations estimates there are about 65,000 people at the Al-Hol camp, including 28,000 Syrians, 30,000 Iraqis, and about 10,000 foreigners of other nationalities.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan repatriated about 220 women and children from Syria last year as part of a rehabilitation program.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">Based on reporting by Reuters<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/11\/29\/uzbekistan-reportedly-planning-to-repatriate-citizens-from-syrian-camps\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unnamed Uzbek government source has said that Uzbekistan plans to repatriate another group of its citizens from a camp for families of Islamic State fighters in Syria,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}