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Lebanon won't deport six detained Syrian refugees

Five of the six men are from Syria's Daraa province, where government forces and rebels have clashed in recent months.
A Syrian refugee walks past the rubble of demolished concrete walls at a make-shift camp in the town of Rihaniyye in Lebanon's Akkar governorate on Aug. 9, 2019.

Lebanon says it won’t deport six Syrian refugees detained for entering the country without authorization after rights groups said they risked arbitrary detention and torture if they were forcibly returned home. 

On Aug. 28, the Lebanese army said it had arrested six Syrians for "entering Lebanon illegally.” The men were detained outside the Syrian Embassy in Beirut, where they had reportedly gone to collect their passports.

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