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Syrian refugees prepare to return to Syria from the Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon, in June 2018. Lebanese authorities detained a journalist after he published a story on refugee women in Arsal. (Reuters/Mohamed Azakir)

Lebanese authorities detain Syrian reporter who reports on refugees

November 26, 2018 3:57 PM EST

Beirut, November 26, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the imprisonment without charge of Abdel Hafez al-Houlani, a correspondent for the Syrian pro-opposition news website Zaman al-Wasl in the northeastern Lebanese city of Arsal, and called on Lebanese authorities to immediately disclose charges against him or set him free.