Appeals for immediate intervention to stop deportation of 6 Syrian refugees in Lebanon to Syria
The Lawyer of six Syrian refugees arrested by Lebanese General Security has appealed to the Public Prosecutor of Discrimination in Lebanon to prevent handing over them to the Assad regime.
He added the country’s security services have given them a 24-hour either leave Lebanon to a third country or be deported to Syria.
He also said the deportation of the 6 Syrian refugees is a violation of Lebanon’s international obligations and laws, and seriously endangers the men’s lives.
The authorities “know very well that since the (men) were arrested outside the embassy, they are therefore wanted by the Syrian regime, and there is a really high probability they would be tortured or in grave danger,” Sablouh told The Associated Press. “This is a violation of the anti-torture convention and Lebanese laws.”
The men were arrested in the last week of August, first by the Lebanese army, for entering the country illegally. They were picked up outside the Syrian embassy where they were to be issued passports.
Four days later, they were transferred to the custody of general security. On Thursday, Amnesty International urged authorities against deporting the men, saying it would endanger their lives and calling for their release, or sending them to trial.
The lawyer has appealed to the Lebanese Public Prosecutor of Discrimination to “immediately intervene to stop this serious crime against these young people.”
