Lebanon eases life for Iraqi refugees
Lebanon has agreed to ease the plight of Iraqi refugees in the country, the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, announced on Wednesday in Beirut.
The authorities will soon release hundreds of Iraqis who had been detained because they are in the country illegally, said the regional director of UNHCR, Stephane Jaquemet. The UNHCR and Caritas, the Catholic aid organisation, will help them, as well as tens of thousands of other illegal Iraqi refugees, to regularise their status during a three-month grace period.
(They were in Syria but moved into Lebanon illegally. Colour me cynical - Dom)