Skip to main content

Rights groups to fight new rules allowing imprisonment of African asylum seekers

Rights groups to fight new rules allowing imprisonment of African asylum seekers

 

Human rights organizations have gone to court in a bid to overturn new rules that would let the government send thousands more asylum seekersto the open detention facility in Holot.

The Interior Ministry’s Population, Immigration and Borders Authority issued the new rules earlier this week.

The organizations asked the High Court of Justice to bar implementation of the new guidelines until the court rules on an earlier petition challenging the constitutionality of the law that enables asylum seekers to be sent to Holot at all. A nine-justice panel is expected to rule on that petition soon.

Under the authority’s rules, whether or not an asylum seeker can be sent to Holot depends in part on when he entered Israel. Previously, Sudanese nationals could be sent there only if they had entered before May 31, 2011 and Eritreans only if they had entered before May 31, 2009. Now, the cutoff has been moved to December 31, 2011 for Sudanese and to July 31, 2011 

More:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.667003

 

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

[MigrantCause.com] Fwd: MAURITANIA: UN EXPERT WELCOMES NEW ANTI-SLAVERY LAW, SAYS EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT IS KEY

      Web version    New York  Aug 21 2015 1:00PM    UN News Centre with breaking news from the UN News Service  Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery Urmila Bhoola. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (file) MAURITANIA: UN EXPERT WELCOMES NEW ANTI-SLAVERY LAW, SAYS EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT IS KEY While applauding the adoption of a new anti-slavery law in Mauritania that doubles, from 10 to 20 years, the maximum prison...
Post a Comment
Read more

John Major praises 'guts and drive' of immigrants in the UK

John Major praises 'guts and drive' of immigrants in the UK Comments: Mr John Major  is right about migrants in the UK and worldwide. Most of  migrants  leave their countries as asylum seekers fleeing persecution, lack of freedom and human rights abuses. Other leave their countries just to look for new opportunities. Arriving in the new countries such as UK , they work hard to survive. In most cases they have left their families and relatives. They have to share their earnings with the people their left behind and to support the education of their relatives.  They live in disadvantageous situations because they  are not  in the same situation like the British people who  have families that  help them to set up a business for example, pay their education, help them to raise funding or to get a bank loan, to inherit houses and other assets. They face institutional discrimination because most of the...
Post a Comment
Read more

[New post] Daily News and Updates from ReliefWeb 01/29/2016

Paul V Dudman posted: " OECD and UNHCR back increased refugee integration - World | ReliefWeb via ReliefWeb Headlines http://reliefweb.int/ tags: IFTTT Feedly ReliefWeb " Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Refugee Archives @ UEL Daily New...
Post a Comment
Read more