About 100 Tajik children will be rescued from Iraqi prisons and taken home in the next six months, the Ambassador of Tajikistan in Kuwait and Iraq Zubaidullo Zubaydzoda told Radio Ozodi.

Last spring, 6 Tajik children returned home from Iraq. They were returned thanks to the efforts of Tajikistan’s diplomatic missions in Kuwait, Astana, Tehran, Ankara, Moscow, the United Arab Emirates, with the assistance of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, also with the assistance of international organizations - UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

However, it was not possible to return the former militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization (IS) to the homeland of the Tajik women.

In September last year, a court of the city of Baghdad sentenced 9 citizens of Tajikistan to 20 years in prison, each on charges of membership in the IG and cohabitation with militants of this group. A source in the government of Tajikistan then reported that many of the convicted women have young children who were sent to Baghdad orphanage.

Earlier, an Iraqi court sentenced 4 Tajik women accused of involvement in terrorism, a death sentence, another 13 women were sentenced to life imprisonment and 20 years in prison.

“The Qazaq Times”