Asylum seekers could be forced into warzones such as Syria under new laws tabled by the Turnbull Government, a prominent human rights lawyer has warned.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton tabled a bill last week to strengthen requirements for people who are not refugees as described in the Migration Act, but cannot be returned to their home country due to risk of harm.

The Migration Amendment (Complementary Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2015 seeks to rule out protection for people who face a "generalised" risk, can change their behaviour and can relocate to a safer part of their home country.

The potential laws have been labelled as dangerous by human rights lawyer David Manne.

Mr Manne, the executive director of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre, told the ABC the proposed laws could see asylum seekers deported to warzones such as Syria.

"These provisions run the very real risk, if they pass into law, of seeing people sent back to extremely dangerous war zones," he said.

"These types of provisions are very hard to reconcile with the recent generosity and compassion seen in the humanitarian act of agreeing to take an additional 12,000 Syrian refugees."

Mr Manne said the Government had not made a credible case for the proposed changes, which he said would affect "many people" currently under protection in Australia.

The bill has been referred to the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, with a report due early next year.

Syrian asylum seeker injured after repatriation from Manus Island

The legislation coincides with news that a Syrian man repatriated from Manus Island by the Federal Government has been injured during shelling on his village.

Lateline tracked down the man, known as Eyad, who had arrived on Christmas Island by boat on August 4, 2013.

The 29-year-old was flown home in August this year, having claimed to have signed a waiver provided by the Australian Government.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds 5 m Australia's '19th Syrian' was injured in shelling back home while his father was killed in the same attack.

"The papers say that I have left with my own will and I am responsible for myself if anything happens to me there," he said.

"It's my own responsibility, not the Australian Government."

Eyad said he had been picked up by government intelligence officers after landing in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

He was later reunited with his family, but he said his village — caught between rebel militants and the Syrian government army in Daraa province —was dangerous.

He said he was outside with his 54-year-old father last month when shelling began.

"A shell dropped about four metres from us," he said.

"The shrapnel killed my father at the spot and I was injured."