The Swedish Immigration Service has made a number of deportation decisions against Syrian asylum seekers from the Damascus region, as it thought the city had "become safe".

The Alcombs website, which deals with Swedish news in Arabic, obtained a letter from a Syrian asylum seeker in which he talks about the decision to deport from the Immigration Department, explaining that he serves in the Assad regime's army. Of Major General, before he defected in 2012, when he was seeking refuge in the Zaatari camp in Jordan. He then traveled to Sweden in 2019 and applied for asylum there.

The asylum seeker added in his letter that after three years in Sweden, the immigration authority issued a decision to deport him with his family, as the city of Damascus is considered safe, noting that he repeatedly appealed the decision but to no avail. The immigration agency required him to issue passports and leave Sweden.

He noted that the right to have a lawyer from the Immigration Authority is no longer valid due to a final decision in his case, stressing that he now lives in constant anxiety, fearing that he and his family will be deported to Syria, where he was sentenced to five years in prison.

While the lawyer, Nadia Hatem, referred to the asylum seeker's case and said that this is not the first case where a deportation decision was made because Damascus was considered safe, as several decisions were made on the issue, and she advised the asylum seeker to contact the "Immigration Department" again. Will not serve his purpose of staying in Sweden.

She added that the deportation decisions against the Syrians could not be implemented, as it is not possible to fly to Damascus airport, so all deportation decisions have been stopped at the moment, giving them the opportunity to try again and get asylum in Sweden.

It is worth noting that Sweden currently hosts more than 191,000 Syrian refugees, and according to the Swedish Statistical Bureau in 2018, the number of Syrian refugees has reached more than 189,000 Syrian refugees, who hold a residence permit or Swedish citizenship.