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A.S, is a Syrian defected officer. He was serving with Syrian Intelligence forces before he fled to Lebanon in 2014.

Years later, he registered with UNHCR as asylum seeker. In 2021, he married from a Lebanese lady.

On 25 September 2023, he visited the General Security Branch in Deir Ammar, north of Lebanon in order to renew his residency. He was arrested and then sent to Serail Tripoli (Court) and then to the General Directorate of General Security in Beirut.

When his family's lawyer tried to inquire about his case the Information department of the General Security rejected to disclose any...

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قضية م.ع

م.ع هو مواطن سوري الجنسية، طالب لجوء. في 22 أيلول 2023، اعتقله عناصر من جهاز أمن الدولة اللبنانية من منزله في مخيم الرحمة في البقاع شرق لبنان. واتهم بمخالفة قواعد الإقامة في لبنان.

بتاريخ 3 تشرين الأول 2023، صدر حكم عن محكمة جنايات زحلة بتغريمه عشرين مليون ليرة لبنانية بالإضافة إلى ترحيله إلى سوريا. بتاريخ 6 تشرين الأول 2023، نُقل إلى الأمن العام في زحلة.

ويخشى أن يتم ترحيله إلى سوريا حيث قد يتم القبض عليه تعسفياً ويتعرض للتعذيب.

قضية ع.أ

ع.أ هو مواطن سوري دخل لبنان عام 2011، هرب من سوريا خوفاً من الاعتقال من قبل السلطات السورية حيث تم اعتقال والده وشقيقه منذ ذلك الحين. توفي والده في...

Background

The case of M.A

M. A, is a Syrian seeker asylum. On 22 September 2023, he was arrested by the Lebanese State Security Forces from his home in Al Rahma Camp in Bekaa, east of Lebanon. He was accused of violating the rules of residency in Lebanon.

On 3 October 2023, a sentence was issued by the Criminal Court of Zahle which fined him with twenty millions of Lebanese Lira in addition to deportation to Syria. On 6 October 2023, he was transferred to General Security in Zahle.

He fears to be deported to Syria where he might be arrested arbitrarily and subjected to torture.

The case of A.A

A.A...

On 26 December 2022, Cedar Centre joined several local and international civil society organisations in seizing the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) and relevant UN Special Procedure mandate holders with a call for urgent action concerning the situation in Roumieh prison and other Lebanese detention centres

Meseret, Ethiopian migrant domestic worker in Lebanon

Thursday 8th October, Beirut International human rights NGO Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) has launched a ground-breaking slavery case in Lebanon. LAW represents Meseret, a 38-year-old migrant domestic worker who was kept as a slave in a Beirut apartment for seven years until 2019. She was locked inside the home without payment and subject to serious abuse and neglect. “Whenever I asked about my salary, my employer beat me,” Meseret says, now from her home in Ethiopia. Today, LAW has filed a case on her behalf in the Lebanese Criminal Court...

قامت جمعيّة السلامة والانماء المستدام (علم وخبر 852/أ) بتوزيع مناشير توعويّة عن فيروس الكورونا المستجدّ وشرحت من خلاله طريقة انتقال العدوى وسبل الوقاية منه.