Published : 03-10-2017
Human Rights Watch Organization accused the Jordanian authorities of deporting Syrian refugees collectively and urgently, so as not to give refugees an opportunity to appeal for their deportation.
In its report "I do not know why they brought us back, Jordan’s deporting of Syrian refugees," the organization said that in the first five months of 2017, the Jordanian authorities deported about 400 registered Syrian refugees per month, 300 voluntary deportation of what appears to be registered refugees, while 500 others return to Syria every month, in unclarified conditions.
Bill Frelick, director of Human Rights Watch's refugee program advised Jordan to not send people to Syria without ensuring that they will not face the risk of torture or serious harm and without a fair opportunity to prove their need for protection.
Frelick added that Jordan rejected groups of refugees collectively and prevented those suspected of committing security breaches of the security procedures due to them, ignoring the real threats faced by the deportees upon their return to Syria.
AGPS had previously recorded the Jordanian authority’s deportation of two families from Yarmouk camp on July 1 2015. They were the families of Palestinian refugee “Ayman Adra” which consists of the parents and 5 children, and Ayman’s brother, Amin Adra’s family made of the parents and two children.
In its previous report “They are not welcome… Jordan’s treatment to those who fled Syria,” Human Rights Watch stated that Jordan refused the entrance of Palestinian refugees who fled Syria or forcibly deporting them, in a clear breach of its international obligations. Jordan official banned the entrance of Palestinians coming from Syria in January 2013 and forcibly deported more than 100 of those who managed to enter the country in mid-2012, including women and children.
Human Rights Watch also documented that Jordan ousted a number of Palestinians who lived in Syria for many years and hold the Jordanian nationality, detained and deported them to Syria without documented evidence. It also recorded that Jordan deported 7 Palestinians coming from Syria in 2013 and 2014, and transfered four others to the “CyberCity,” a closed detention facility for Palestinian and Syrian refugees in northern Jordan.
Human Rights Watch Organization accused the Jordanian authorities of deporting Syrian refugees collectively and urgently, so as not to give refugees an opportunity to appeal for their deportation.
In its report "I do not know why they brought us back, Jordan’s deporting of Syrian refugees," the organization said that in the first five months of 2017, the Jordanian authorities deported about 400 registered Syrian refugees per month, 300 voluntary deportation of what appears to be registered refugees, while 500 others return to Syria every month, in unclarified conditions.
Bill Frelick, director of Human Rights Watch's refugee program advised Jordan to not send people to Syria without ensuring that they will not face the risk of torture or serious harm and without a fair opportunity to prove their need for protection.
Frelick added that Jordan rejected groups of refugees collectively and prevented those suspected of committing security breaches of the security procedures due to them, ignoring the real threats faced by the deportees upon their return to Syria.
AGPS had previously recorded the Jordanian authority’s deportation of two families from Yarmouk camp on July 1 2015. They were the families of Palestinian refugee “Ayman Adra” which consists of the parents and 5 children, and Ayman’s brother, Amin Adra’s family made of the parents and two children.
In its previous report “They are not welcome… Jordan’s treatment to those who fled Syria,” Human Rights Watch stated that Jordan refused the entrance of Palestinian refugees who fled Syria or forcibly deporting them, in a clear breach of its international obligations. Jordan official banned the entrance of Palestinians coming from Syria in January 2013 and forcibly deported more than 100 of those who managed to enter the country in mid-2012, including women and children.
Human Rights Watch also documented that Jordan ousted a number of Palestinians who lived in Syria for many years and hold the Jordanian nationality, detained and deported them to Syria without documented evidence. It also recorded that Jordan deported 7 Palestinians coming from Syria in 2013 and 2014, and transfered four others to the “CyberCity,” a closed detention facility for Palestinian and Syrian refugees in northern Jordan.
