Lebanon: Armed Forces Summarily Deporting Syrians
5th July 2023
- Lebanese Armed Forces have summarily deported thousands of Syrians, including unaccompanied children, back to Syria between April and May 2023.
- Syrians in Lebanon are living in constant fear that they could be picked up and sent back to nightmarish conditions, regardless of their refugee status.
- Lebanese authorities should enable Syrians to regularize their status in the country. Donor governments should ensure that funding does not contribute to rights violations.
Apparently it is a ‘human right’ to remain in somebody else’s country illegally.