Syrians imprisoned in Lebanon: Detainees or diplomatic leverage?

In 2024, he was transferred to the “Blue House,” the building reserved for people with mental illnesses inside Roumieh. Most recently, several sit-ins were organized last Wednesday, including at Syria’s Jousiya border crossing with Lebanon, in which relatives of Syrian detainees demanded their release. At the same time, others—Lebanese and Syrians alike—protested in front of Roumieh prison in Lebanon. The issue of Syrian detainees in Lebanon is “primarily a political file,” journalist and political researcher Siba Madwar told Syria Direct. With the fall of Assad, official Lebanese statements changed, as though Syrian detainees no longer constituted a crisis.