A family of seven, including a 5-year-old girl, faces deportation to separate countries for lacking residency papers, human rights groups have warned. The father, a Sudanese national, is to be deported to Sudan with his five children, he has told the Anti-Racism Movement. Meanwhile, the mother faces deportation to her home country of Sri Lanka.
The Sudanese father is being held near Adlieh along with three sons, one of whom is 13 . Meanwhile, their mother and the two youngest children are waiting separately in a shelter run by Caritas Lebanon.
"Concerns even extend to [the Caritas] shelter environment," Fakih said, pointing out that it, too, was a detention center, since the mother and her children were not allowed to leave.
"Less harmful alternatives" could be used, which do not separate the children from their parents while the family's case is being considered, HRW said in its statement.
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