Iraq: Unlawful Deportations of Syrians

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Erbil International Airport in Erbil, Iraq March 17, 2020. © 2020 Azad Lashkari/Reuters (Beirut) – Iraqi authorities in Baghdad and Erbil have arbitrarily detained and deported Syrians to Damascus and to parts of northeast Syria under the control of Kurdish-led forces, Human Rights Watch said today. Iraqi authorities have deported some Syrians even though they possessed official Iraqi documents, enabling them to stay and work in the country or were registered as asylum seekers with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees…

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