The Australian government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to ISIS, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.

Axar.az informs, citing AP, the women and children from 11 families were supposed to fly from the Syrian capital Damascus to Australia but Syrian authorities on Monday turned them back to Roj camp in northeast Syria because of procedural problems, officials said.

“We’re providing absolutely no support, and we are not repatriating people,” Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp. in Melbourne.

Albanese noted that the child welfare-focused international charity Save the Children had failed to establish in Australia’s courts that the Australian government had a responsibility to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps.

Albanese said if the latest group made their way to Australia without government help, they could be charged.

It was an offense under Australian law to travel to the former ISIS stronghold of al-Raqqa province without a legitimate reason from 2014 to 2017. The maximum penalty was 10 years in prison.