A number of Palestinian Syrian and Syrian refugees organized an open sit-in in front of the Cypriot parliament protesting on the continued deterioration of their deplorable humanitarian and living conditions, and the non-implementation of their demands and help them to overcome their plight and access to European countries and to be reunited with their families. The protestors demanded from the Cypriot authorities to re-open an investigation into the incident of killing the Palestinian refugee “Ahmed Abdullah,” a resident of Al Baramka neighborhood in Damascus, who was found dead on a road on 26th of December, after several days of his disappearance in mysterious circumstances in a camp for refugees.
It is noteworthy that 340 Palestinian refugees are still detained by the Cypriot authorities in a suburb of the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, after the Cypriot navy rescued their boat from sinking on their way to Italy on 26th of September 2014.