Five Syrian youths disappeared when they went to the Syrian embassy in Beirut
The Progressive Socialist Party in Lebanon said that “five young Syrians disappeared when they went to the Damascus embassy in Beirut last week.”
The party added, in a statement published by the official Lebanese news agency yesterday, that “the incident raises concern over the commitment of Lebanese official institutions to the decisions that require the protection of those fleeing from killing and destruction, and raises questions about the fate of the various Syrian opponents who entered Lebanon in various ways to escape arrest and torture.”
The party affiliated with Druze leader Walid Jumblatt asked “the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs what it will do about this serious violation of the sovereignty of the Lebanese state on its territory.”
He put this incident “in the line of (responsibility) of local and international human rights institutions, and of the Lebanese General Security, which is entrusted with the implementation of official decisions not to deportation in a coercive manner, and to draw the Lebanese state or what remains of it, which is required to prevent such humanitarian violations, whatever the circumstances.”
The number of Syrian refugees residing in Lebanon is approximately 1.5 million, about 900,000 of whom are registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and most of them suffer from difficult living conditions.
