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AUAD v. BULGARIA JUDGMENT
provisions must be interpreted as meaning that the period during which
enforcement of the deportation order has been suspended because the person
concerned has challenged it by way of judicial review is to be taken into
account in calculating the period of detention for the purpose of removal,
where the person concerned remains in detention during that procedure. The
court further ruled that Article 15 § 4 must be interpreted as meaning that
only a real prospect that removal can be carried out successfully, having
regard to the periods laid down in Article 15 §§ 5 and 6, corresponds to a
reasonable prospect of removal, and that such a reasonable prospect does
not exist where it appears unlikely that the person concerned will be
admitted to a third country, having regard to those periods.
IV. RELEVANT COUNTRY INFORMATION
A. Background
52. There are twelve “official” Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon:
two in the north of the country, near Tripoli, five in the centre (four near
Beirut and one near Baalbek), and five in the south (two near Saida and
three near Tyre). In addition, there are dozens of informal gatherings,
sometimes referred to as “unofficial camps”, spread throughout the country.
The majority of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are those displaced during
the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 and their descendants. More Palestinians
arrived in 1967 after the Six-Day War, and in the 1970s after they were
expelled from Jordan. The refugees fall into three categories: those
registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East (“the UNRWA”) (“registered refugees”), who are
also registered with the Lebanese authorities; refugees registered with the
Lebanese authorities but not with the UNRWA (“non-registered refugees”);
and refugees registered neither with the UNRWA nor with the Lebanese
authorities (“non-ID refugees”). According to the UNRWA, on 30 June
2010 there were 427,057 registered refugees in Lebanon; 226,767, or 53.1%
of them, were living in the “official” camps. However, according to a report
by the International Crisis Group (see paragraphs 76 and 77 below), many
observers believe that the numbers cited by the UNRWA are inflated and
fail to take account of the impact of the 1975-90 Lebanese Civil War and
subsequent waves of Palestinian departures; according to their estimates, in
2009 the refugees were between 200,000 and 250,000. There are an
estimated 10,000 to 35,000 non-registered refugees and 3,000 to 5,000
non-ID refugees. By law, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are considered
foreigners and are subject to various restrictions (for details, see Amnesty
International: Exiled and suffering: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon,
October 2007).
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