Detention and prolonged detention after the expiry of judicially imposed sentences as well as “administrative” detention have long been one of the most severe protection problems confronting refugees and asylum-seekers in Lebanon. Lebanon host two categories of refugees, the Palestinian refugees, most of them arrived in the late 1940s and early 1950s (1948 Palestinian refugees), and refugees from war-torn countries, or countries well known to have systematic human rights violations. Today, the majority of them are Iraqis...
