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High Court approves detention of asylum seekers without charge, but only for 12 months
The High Court of Justice capitulates to the threats of Israel’s right wing and approves the prolonged detention of asylum seekers. By Haggai Matar Israel’s High Court of Justice approved on Tuesday the third and latest version of the Prevention of Infiltration Law, after it struck down the two previous versions passed by the Knesset.…
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Haggai Matar
August 11, 2015
Between Tel Aviv and Holot: Open jail splits refugee family
Six years after he fled Eritrea for Israel, Aman has found himself living in Holot – an ‘open detention center’ built by the Israeli government for African asylum seekers. His wife and his daughter, on the other hand, were left behind in Tel Aviv and are not permitted to live with him. By Ayla Peggy…
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February 12, 2014
Immigration officers arrest asylum seekers on second ‘March for Freedom’
For the second time this week, 130 asylum seekers leave the Holot ‘open’ prison facility in southern Israel, march through the desert in an attempt to move their demonstration to a major city. This time around, immigration officers stopped the march shortly after it began. The asylum seekers are protesting their detention conditions and the arrest of…
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Haggai Matar
December 19, 2013
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In Israel’s trade catalog, arms and asylum seekers are equal commodities
With arbitrary arrest and detention, forcible transfer, withholding of basic human rights, the imposition of birth control measures and now an arms-for-asylum-seekers deal which amounts to little more than human trafficking, Israel has become a theater of horrors for Africans. A report in yesterday’s Yedioth Aharonoth (originally in Hebrew, and translated into English for their website) revealed…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
July 10, 2013
A year in review: Anti-African racism and asylum seekers in Israel
While most Israelis were focused on the latest war on Gaza or the last election, verbal incitement, physical attacks, incarceration without trial and forced deportation of Africans continued unabated. A timeline of Israel’s war on African asylum-seekers between November 2012 and May 2013. By David Sheen Last Thursday, May 23, 2013, marked exactly one year to…
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