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Cypriot and Lebanese NGOs urge halting pushbacks to Syria
Four Lebanese and Cypriot NGOs released a joint letter on Friday, 11 August, calling Cyprus to stop its pushbacks of asylum-seekers back to Lebanon, where they are unlawfully deported back to Syria. The letter said that Cypriot authorities had forcibly returned at least 109 individuals from Cyprus to Lebanon since July, of which at least 73 "were subsequently deported to Syria and handed over to the Syrian regime." It also said that on 3 August, 36 passengers were pushed back from Cyprus and then arbitrarily detained by Lebanese General Security, where it is feared that they will be forced back to Syria. This process, where Cyprus returns asylum-seekers to Lebanon, an

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