The NGO Human Rights Watch made public, Monday, October 24, a first investigation excavated and argued on the subject.
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Rumors began to run at the start of the year, soon transformed into certainties. Several stories of forced expulsions of Syrian refugees by the Turkish authorities have first spread on social networks or by word of mouth, arrests in the streets of the country of the country or in the workplace. Here, it is a Syrian driver who, after having been the victim of a road accident, is suddenly embarked by the police who came on site. There, a small group of refugees harassed by young people with the obvious aim of triggering an intervention by the police. Again, a banal convocation for an administrative procedure followed by a police check and a forced renewal on the border.
And then in June, the European Court of Human Rights accused Turkish authorities of having violated the rights of a Syrian citizen, Muhammad Fawzi Akkad, for having “arbitrarily expelled to his own country” Despite a valid residence permit. Ankara is ordered to pay 12,250 euros to Mr. Akkad for moral damage. The court also “estimated that the fact of handcuffing the person with other Syrians during the bus journey, which lasted nearly twenty hours, was equivalent to a humiliating treatment”.
Monday, October 24, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) decided to make public a first survey excavated and argued on the multiplication of a phenomenon which is however poorly measured. About fifty testimonies from expelled people and relatives have enabled her author, Nadia Hardman, to throw a raw light on part of the in progress, in flagrant violation of international law. According to the report, the number of Syrian refugees “arbitrarily arrested, detained and expelled to Syria by the Turkish authorities” rises, between February and July 2022, to “several hundred (…) including unaccompanied children” . And again, underlines Nadia Hardman, attached by phone, “is probably only a minimum estimate”.
complete reversal of the reception policy
Testimonies and stories evoke arrests at home or in town and bad conditions of detention. “Most refugees have suffered mistreatment and smoking,” said the document. They have been gathered and forced to sign voluntary return forms before being led to the crossing points with northern Syria and forced to cross under the threat of a weapon. “
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