Syrian refugees attempting to reach Cyprus from Lebanon are being pulled back by EU-funded Lebanese authorities and forcibly expelled to their homeland despite fleeing war and persecution, a new report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch claims. The Cypriot coastguard is enabling these forced removals by pushing refugees back to Lebanon, while the EU is injecting money into the Lebanese armed forces responsible for repeated human rights abuses, the report also says. “Despite European donors’ lip service to human rights obligations, European funding to Lebanese security agencies for border…
