According to Human Rights Watch, six Syrian civilians, including one minor, were arrested by the Lebanese Army in Wadi Khaled late Monday, before being transferred to General Security Tuesday for entering Lebanon illegally.
Five Lebanese nationals detained in the same raid have now been released without charge, said Nadim Khoury, HRW’s Beirut director. The five were providing temporary shelter to some of the several thousand Syrian refugees who have flooded across the border in recent weeks.
None of the detainees has been deported back to Syria, but a seventh man was forcibly transferred Tuesday from the Youssef Medical Center in Halba to the General Security holding facility in Tripoli.
The man was undergoing treatment for a bullet wound to his feet when arrested, HRW said.
Family members claim they were denied access to their relative but were later telephoned by General Security Wednesday and told to produce the man’s identity papers so that he could be transferred to Syrian security services, Khoury added.
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