Monday, 17 February 2014

Israel builds detention center in the desert for African Asylum seekers

The Isreali government has built a 9,000 person capacity detention
facility in the southern desert where illegal African Immigrants
would be detained. According to the Isreali government, the illegal
immigrants who seek asylum in the country are becoming a
burden to the govt and so they would be moved from the
Shaharonim detention centre were they are presently being held to
the new facility, a place human rights group have called a De-
facto prison.
In this new facility which is situated in the desert, the immigrants
will be locked down at night, and forced to check-in with the
Israeli authorities three times per day. They will also be barred
from working outside the centre. Continue...

The illegal immigrants who are more than 1000 would be moved
into the facility without any trial or charge and held up in the
facility until the Isreali government is able to repatriate them back
to their countries.
The Isreali Government through an act of Parliament passed the
"Anti-Infiltration Law" which seeks to create a suitable balance
between the right of the State of Israel to defend its borders and
prevent infiltration, and its obligation to act in a humanitarian
manner toward anyone within its borders and protect the human
rights due to every person".
There are an estimated 54,000 African asylum seekers in Israel,
with most coming from Sudan and Eritrea.

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