Ottawa, July 15 -- A Canadian family on Wednesday sued the federal government for failing to repatriate their child from a Syrian refugee camp, court documents revealed.

The uncle of five-year old Amira, who was orphaned after her Canadian parents and three siblings were killed in an airstrike in Northeastern Syria in 2019, said that he has tried everything to bring her to Canada but that the government has been unresponsive for more than year.

"The Charter remedy being sought requiring the government of Canada to formally ask for the repatriation of Amira and then take reasonable steps to facilitate this is one that meaningfully vindicates the rights and freedoms of Amira," the court documents said.

The uncle, identified only as Ibrah...