Concerns are mounting for the safety of women and children held in ~~prison~~ concentration camps for detainees suspected of links to the Islamic State group (IS), as Kurdish authorities cede control of the camps to the Syrian government.

Women in al-Roj camp, where many foreign detainees are held and which remains in the hands of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told Middle East Eye that women and children had suffered mistreatment, including beatings, during nightly raids by security forces.

“Every night I’m in fear for my safety and the kids’ as well,” said one female detainee from a European country.

Women and children were being forced out of their tents, stripped of warm clothing and doused with water in freezing temperatures during the nightly raids, she said.

Some women, she said, have been beaten inside their tents until they lost consciousness.