Kenyan domestic worker and asylum seeker at risk of deportation from Lebanon released
Timeline
October 2022: NM is released.
August 15, 2022: MENA Rights Group and the Anti-Racism Movement submit an urgent appeal to several UN special procedures mandate-holders, including the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
August 4, 2022: The GSO tries to forcibly return NM to her country of origin.
April 2022: NM introduces a request for international protection before the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
April 4, 2022: NM is arrested by the General Security Office.
January 2022: Weeks-long demonstrations are held in front of Kenya’s honorary consulate in Beirut.
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