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15.10.2012. A few hundred African migrants sent back meals for two days last week to protest against the “Infiltrators Law,” the Prisons Service said.
Approved last January, the so-called “Infiltrators Law,” an amendment to the Prevention of Infiltration Law (1954), went into effect in June and allows the state to jail without trial for up to three years people who have entered the country illegally.
Sivan Weitzman, spokeswoman for the Prisons Service, said that between 400 and 500 migrants held at Saharonim Prison near the Egyptian border refused their meals for two days. The Prisons Service only considers a protest a hunger strike once an inmate has refused more than six meals, she said.
