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EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian crisis
News article8 March 2019Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations

Refugees forced to return to Syria face imprisonment, death at the hands of Assad

More than 3.5 million Syrian refugees fled violence and persecution in Syria for Turkey. Some faced forced conscription into the army to fight their fellow Syrians. Some paid huge bribes to escape torture for demonstrating peacefully against the...