Dokument #1150499
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Syria transferred 54 prisoners to Lebanon in December 2000, consisting of 46 Lebanese and 8 Palestinians (HRW 2002).
According to the Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme (FIDH), the following 54 prisoners were released in December 2000:
Abdel Nasser Mohammed el-Asmar Hamawi
Youssef el-Issa (January 2001)
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
References
Fédération internationale
des ligues des droits de l'homme. January 2001. Liban:
L'attente continue pour les familles de détenus et de
disparus. http://www.fidh.org/magmoyen/rapport/2001pdf/lb301f.pdf
[Accessed 12 Apr. 2002]
Human Rights Watch (HRW). 2002.
Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Syria. http://www.hrw.org/wr2k2/mena8.html
[Accessed 12 Apr. 2002]