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  By Activestills[source http://972mag.com/asylum-seekers-hold-silent-march-on-streets-of-tel-aviv/84586/ |Published December 28, 2013   Photos by Activestills, text by Haggai Matar African refugees and Israeli activists protest Israel’s immigration policies, calling for the release of all refugees imprisoned under the Prevention of Infiltration Law, and the recognition of their rights as refugees, December 28, 2013. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org) Over 6,000 African […]

source  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/19/after-fleeing-war-and-genocide-african-refugees-in-israel-march-for-freedom.html       By Matt Surrusco December 19th 201310:00 am followMore Stories by Matt Surrusco       While African asylum seekers marched toward Jerusalem, calling for their rights in Israel and freedom from detention without trials, armed fighting raged between rival factions of soldiers in South Sudan on Monday. U.N. diplomats said […]

By Ilan Lior | Dec. 22, 2013 | 9:03 PM | 6[source http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.564812 Holot detention center: South Tel Aviv residents don’t want detainees to return to their neighborhoods. Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz The Immigration and Population Authority announced Sunday that over the coming days it will start summoning African migrants in city centers to a […]

  By Activestills  source http://972mag.com/hundreds-of-african-asylum-seekers-protest-freedom-march-arrests-in-tel-aviv/84174/ |Published December 21, 2013   Photos: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org, Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org Text: Haggai Matar Approximately 2,000 African asylum seekers and Israeli activists marched from Levinsky Park in south Tel Aviv to Rothschild Boulevard Saturday night to protest the arrests that took place during two “freedom marches” earlier this week. They blocked […]

  By Haggai Matar  |Published December 24, 2013 video  In Israel’s most vibrant demonstration ever to take place on the refugee issue, and in two bold escapes from an ‘open prison,’ African asylum seekers are starting to present themselves as a political force to be reckoned with. Asylum seekers marching under a crown of classical […]

source http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/israels-immoral-refusal/2013/12/23/b4379542-6b0f-11e3-a5d0-6f31cd74f760_story.html African refugees staging a protest in Israel. EPA/Tali Mayer Published: December 24 It is hard not to see the irony in Israel’s refusal to provide a home to the many African migrants seeking refuge from famine and war [“Not their promised land,” front page, Dec. 21]. It was 74 years ago that the ship the St. […]

source http://www.irinnews.org/report/99388/israel-sends-migrants-to-new-open-detention-centres Photo: Shahar Shoam/IRIN Asylum seekers demonstrating in Jerusalem shortly before being arrested TEL AVIV, 25 December 2013 (IRIN) – Hundreds of African migrants and human rights activists marched through the streets of Tel Aviv on 21 December to protest the Israeli government’s policy of detaining irregular migrants, the majority of them asylum seekers […]

Israel refers to African migrants by prison numbers in court ‘Behind the number there are people and it would be appropriate and correct to note the people’s names and not numbers,’ says judge. By Ilan Lior | Dec. 26, 2013 | 3:08 AM | 1 Detail from the court protocol’s first page. Text size Comments […]

Friday, 13 December 2013 06:39 HRW UPR Submission Eritrea Updated in December 2013 – All updates are in bold   Eritrea’s human rights situationhas not improved since the Council’s 2009 Universal Periodic Review.  Torture, arbitrary detention, and severe restrictions on freedom of expression, association, and religious freedom remain routine. Elections have not been held since […]

Eritrean regime’s involvement in the Sinai tragedy Posted on November 16, 2011 by assenna Any one in doubt about the Eritrean regime’s involvement in the Sinai tragedy: read this part from the UN Monitoring group on Somalia and Eritrea report: S/2011/433 Pages: 109/110 J. Human smuggling and trafficking 421. The well-documented exodus of young Eritreans […]