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| Report Claims Jordan Deporting Syrian Refugees |
| 2014-11-25 |
| [Ynet] Jordanian authorities have deported "vulnerable Syrian refugees," including maimed men and unaccompanied children, an international human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group said Monday, adding that a Jordanian government front man denied the claim. Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... said that those deported include a group of 12 Syrians who had been receiving treatment at a rehabilitation center and four refugees, three of them children, whom Jordanian border police stopped near the Syrian border. Human Rights Watch quoted the government front man as denying the refugees had been deported, saying they were taken to other unnamed hospitals. It did not name the front man. Another Jordanian official in Amman contacted by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named refused to comment on the report. "Jordan is carrying a heavy refugee burden, but it should not be in the business of sending any refugees back to a conflict zone where their lives are threatened, much less children and maimed men who can't even walk," said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Such deportations create an environment of fear that affects all refugees." |
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