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It was after his son died as the result of a violent beating, that Walid Muhammad Abdel-Baqi finally made the decision to leave Lebanon for Syria.
“My son was headed towards Beirut, on the way to his sister’s place in Sidon,” Abdel-Baqi, a Syrian refugee whose family has been in Lebanon since 2012, told DW. “But when he arrived there, it was dark, he got lost and couldn’t find the house.”
After that, the family lost contact with Walid, 30, for over two weeks. They later found out gang…
