Israel Sends 150 Protesting African Runaways Back To Jail
- Publisher:
- Wochit
- Publication Date:
- 17 December 2013
- Tags:
- Africa, Migration, Human Rights, Middle East and Africa
Israeli police on Tuesday sent back to custody about 150 African migrants who had abandoned a desert detention center in protest against a new law allowing them to be kept there indefinitely. Aided by rights groups, the migrants had travelled to Jerusalem to demonstrate outside the Israeli parliament, which last week passed a law allowing authorities to hold illegal migrants in an "open facility" until they leave the country.
