As Many Syrian Refugees Return Home, Others Cannot

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A Syrian refugee arrives with his family to cross into Syria from Turkey at the Oncupinar border crossing, December 10, 2024. © 2024 Ahmed Deeb/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Despite joyous images of Syrian refugees going home, no government should be sending or planning to send people back involuntarily. Every citizen has the right to return to their home country, safe or not. But because one refugee chooses to repatriate is no justification to forcibly return another who remains fearful, as many Syrian refugees do, especially given the country’s unstable and possibly…

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