EuroMed Rights was interviewed by Al Jazeera and Daraj on the risks of deportation and smear campaigns targeting Syrian refugees. We were also part of MTV’s debate programme Sarelwa2et on the same topic.
More than 50 Syrian refugees were deported in mid-April 2023, responding to a tightening of measures against Syrian refugees in the country. In coordination with Damascus, Lebanese military forces are making arrests, mainly in Mount Lebanon and Beirut.
A Syrian refugee living in Lebanon was found dead on Friday 28 April 2023. The first hypothesis explaining his death is suicide. The 26-year-old man, a refugee in Lebanon since 2017, killed himself to avoid being forced to return to Syria where he was to perform his mandatory military service. At the same time, the young man was threatened with deportation to Lebanon, a symbol of the growing anti-Syrian sentiment in Lebanon.
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