Published : 01-11-2022
More than eleven years into the Syrian conflict, thousands of Palestinian refugees continue to suffer protracted displacement. The Syrian regime has forcibly displaced thousands of Palestinians and Syrians.
Today, those who wish to return to the vastly devastated refugee camps in Syria fear they would be arrested or forced into military conscription.
Those who were involved in anti-government protests and deserted from military service say they cannot go back to the country for fear of being jailed or persecuted.
Human rights groups have documented several cases where Syrian intelligence branches have arbitrarily detained, disappeared, and/or harassed people in areas retaken from opposition groups. The abuse is taking place even when the government has entered into reconciliation agreements with the people involved.
Upon more than once occasion, AGPS has called on the Syrian government to disclose the fate of hundreds of Palestinians forcibly disappeared in state-run dungeons.
In a recent poll conducted by AGPS, hundreds of Palestinian refugee families in Lebanon said they cannot return to Syria over security concerns.
On Thursday, 11 March 2021, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Syrian conflict to remind the international community of the gravity and magnitude of human rights violations in Syria, perpetrated by all parties to the conflict, including killings, detention, enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, sexual violence and rape, displacement, ethnic cleansing, persecution of minorities, and a dire humanitarian crisis.
In addition, the resolution emphasizes that Syria remains unsafe for refugee return, and calls on EU Member States to refrain from depriving Syrian refugees of their protected status. MEPs urged the EU and Member States to continue supporting and providing humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees and IDPs.
More than eleven years into the Syrian conflict, thousands of Palestinian refugees continue to suffer protracted displacement. The Syrian regime has forcibly displaced thousands of Palestinians and Syrians.
Today, those who wish to return to the vastly devastated refugee camps in Syria fear they would be arrested or forced into military conscription.
Those who were involved in anti-government protests and deserted from military service say they cannot go back to the country for fear of being jailed or persecuted.
Human rights groups have documented several cases where Syrian intelligence branches have arbitrarily detained, disappeared, and/or harassed people in areas retaken from opposition groups. The abuse is taking place even when the government has entered into reconciliation agreements with the people involved.
Upon more than once occasion, AGPS has called on the Syrian government to disclose the fate of hundreds of Palestinians forcibly disappeared in state-run dungeons.
In a recent poll conducted by AGPS, hundreds of Palestinian refugee families in Lebanon said they cannot return to Syria over security concerns.
On Thursday, 11 March 2021, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Syrian conflict to remind the international community of the gravity and magnitude of human rights violations in Syria, perpetrated by all parties to the conflict, including killings, detention, enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, sexual violence and rape, displacement, ethnic cleansing, persecution of minorities, and a dire humanitarian crisis.
In addition, the resolution emphasizes that Syria remains unsafe for refugee return, and calls on EU Member States to refrain from depriving Syrian refugees of their protected status. MEPs urged the EU and Member States to continue supporting and providing humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees and IDPs.
