MIGRASYL

News on migration and asylum from around the region - Nouvelles de la région sur les questions de migration et d'asile

Monday, March 22, 2010

[Lebanon] CLDH: Arbitrarily detained refugees cannot bear it any longer

On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in desperation, two Iraqi refugees held arbitrarily at the retention center of the General Security would have violently hit their head against a wall. Several others stated that they had not been feeding themselves for two weeks to protest against their detention conditions and to demand their release. Others have joined this Saturday March 20th the hunger strike movement, which the authorities have made a point to deny.

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