00:01Australian police arrested three women linked to the Islamic State extremist group after they returned to the country on Thursday
00:09from Syria, where they had been detained in a refugee camp for more than seven years.
00:14Video footage provided by the Australian Federal Police showed two women, aged 53 and 31, being arrested at Melbourne Airport
00:22on charges of crimes against humanity, including owning and using a slave in Syria.
00:27Separately, a 32-year-old Australian woman was arrested at Sydney Airport on Thursday and charged with terror-related offences,
00:36including allegedly joining Islamic State.
00:38The charges carry a maximum jail term of 10 years, and she is due to appear in a Sydney court
00:44on Friday.
00:45The government said earlier this week that four women and nine children plan to return to Australia from Syrian camps
00:52without official assistance.
00:53Officials have declined to comment on the status of the fourth woman or the children.
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