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Responding to the shocking news that almost 200 Syrian refugees rescued from a sinking boat off the coast of Lebanon on New Year’s Eve were unlawfully deported and delivered into the hands of the Syrian authorities, Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “The Lebanese army’s apparent deportation of these refugees shows, yet again, the callous disregard with which the authorities treat vulnerable people. The Lebanese army’s apparent deportation of these refugees shows, yet again, the callous disregard with which the authorities treat vulnerable people. Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International“They escaped the war in…

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