Five Syrian men jailed in Honduras for arriving with stolen Greek passports were freed on bail by a judge Tuesday after authorities deemed them migrants and not security risks.

The men, aged between 21 and 30 and identifying themselves as Syrian students and a professor, were freed on bail of $450 each, a court spokeswoman told AFP.

They had been in preventive detention pending investigation on charges of falsifying public identity documents for putting their photos in the passports.