Published : 20-11-2022
A Palestinian family was blackmailed on Saturday at a regime checkpoint as they returned to Syria from Lebanon.
A few days earlier, the family headed for Lebanon to pay a visit to their relatives. Syrian security officers searched them and robbed them of their money, mobile phone, and other food and non-food items.
The Syrian authorities threatened retaliation against the family in case they speak up against the violations they have been subjected to.
Earlier this year, Foreign Policy magazine said Syria is neither safe nor stable for migrant returns. Returnees often disappear without a trace into the hands of the security state.
Foreign Policy added that Syria is an unstable place. Political change is not inevitable, but it is possible. Many of Syria’s neighbors have sizable populations of Syria refugees. These people are frequently mistreated in the labor markets and are subject to nationalist and sectarian violence.
Lebanon and Turkey are suffering their own economic crises; they would rather be deporting refugees to Syria, in whatever shape it is, than taking more in—yet keeping an unvictorious Assad in power risks more violence, more displacement, and possibly greater tides of people, it said.
A Palestinian family was blackmailed on Saturday at a regime checkpoint as they returned to Syria from Lebanon.
A few days earlier, the family headed for Lebanon to pay a visit to their relatives. Syrian security officers searched them and robbed them of their money, mobile phone, and other food and non-food items.
The Syrian authorities threatened retaliation against the family in case they speak up against the violations they have been subjected to.
Earlier this year, Foreign Policy magazine said Syria is neither safe nor stable for migrant returns. Returnees often disappear without a trace into the hands of the security state.
Foreign Policy added that Syria is an unstable place. Political change is not inevitable, but it is possible. Many of Syria’s neighbors have sizable populations of Syria refugees. These people are frequently mistreated in the labor markets and are subject to nationalist and sectarian violence.
Lebanon and Turkey are suffering their own economic crises; they would rather be deporting refugees to Syria, in whatever shape it is, than taking more in—yet keeping an unvictorious Assad in power risks more violence, more displacement, and possibly greater tides of people, it said.
