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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

[Israel] PUBLICATION Human Rights Watch - 'Make Their Lives Miserable', Israel’s Coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers to Leave Israel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
This 83-page report documents how Israel’s convoluted legal rules thwart Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers’ attempts to secure protection under Israeli and international law. Israeli authorities have labelled Eritreans and Sudanese a “threat”, branded them “infiltrators,” denied them access to fair and efficient asylum procedures, and used the resulting insecure legal status as a pretext to unlawfully detain or threaten to detain them indefinitely, coercing thousands into leaving.


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