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How Eritrean regime agents persecute asylum seekers in Israel
Israeli authorities have long turned a blind eye to the threat Eritreans face from their own government, leaving the community desperate to protect itself.
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Guli Dolev-Hashiloni
September 5, 2023
The far-right nationalist movement roiling Eritreans in Israel
The far-right Agazian movement seeks to establish a Tigrinyan Orthodox-Christian state in what is now Eritrea and part of Ethiopia. Its anti-Muslim, militant politics are deepening the divisions within the already fractious Eritrean opposition. By Inbal Ben Yehuda About two years ago, an extremist, far-right movement began operating on the Eritrean political scene. The movement, broadly called Agazian…
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May 7, 2018
Asylum seekers sent to Rwanda warn: ‘If you don’t want to die, stay in Israel’
Israeli officials often imply that African asylum seekers sent to Rwanda will receive legal status and the ability to build a life there. Testimonies collected in a new report paint an entirely different — and much grimmer — picture. “I saw 400 people [in the Mediterranean]. They drowned […] many children died, I remember. I don’t…
By
Joshua Leifer
February 2, 2018
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Eritreans in Israel face unique obstacles in protesting for their country’s future
Had the Israeli media paid attention to a protest by Eritrean refugees outside their embassy last week, the public would have learned something valuable about the Eritrean community in Israel: they desperately want a better future for their country so that one day soon, they can go home. By Sigal Rozen Over 200 Eritrean refugees gathered…
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February 7, 2013
Who cares about the UN?
Israel accepts or rejects the UN refugee agency’s positions as it sees fit. In addition to indicating a general disregard for the United Nations, its approach toward UNHCR, whose establishment Israel once enthusiastically supported, demonstrates a serious need for additional refugee law expertise. By Dr. Yuval Livnat R. told Interior Ministry representatives that he is…
By
Laissez Passer
November 6, 2012
PHOTO ESSAY: A sprawling desert prison, for thousands of refugees
On Thursday, I traveled to the south with a group of journalists and bloggers to view the construction of new detention facilities around Ketsiot, near the Egyptian border. When completed, the four prisons in the area are meant to be able to hold more than 16,000 inmates, making them, together, the largest detention facility for…
By
Noam Sheizaf
November 3, 2012
African refugees must be processed by Israel, not criminalized
When it comes to the issue of refugees, or ‘infiltrators,’ emotions often get the best of those who are defending one term or another. But facts are facts, apples are apples, oranges are oranges. I was reminded of the above when reviewing Oren Ziv’s images of the mother and daughter being arrested at a kindergarten…
By
Roee Ruttenberg
October 29, 2012
Eritrean asylum seeker details recent hunger strike, fear of indefinite incarceration
Some 500 asylum seekers held in a prison in the desert recently refused food in protest of a new law that enables Israel to keep them in detention indefinitely. By Sharon Livne “Don’t tell anyone my name, I’m afraid of what they’ll do to me here if they know I talked.” So began a nighttime…
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October 18, 2012
Asylum seeker to Israel: Probe claims Eritrean Embassy extorts refugees
By Isayas Teklebrhan I traveled to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on September 3, 2012 in order to submit the following letter, designed to expose the Eritrean dictatorial regime. When I arrived at the building, I explained to the security guards, that I am an Eritrean asylum seeker wishing to submit an open…
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+972 Magazine
September 20, 2012
A scorching desert jail for asylum seekers, with no way out
While Eritrean asylum seekers cannot be deported due to the risk they would face upon return, the new Prevention of Infiltration Law enables Israel to keep them in prison indefinitely. New arrivals, most having faced rape and torture en route to Israel, are presently being held in a prison in the desert, and nobody knows…
By
Laissez Passer
August 14, 2012
African couple hospitalized after apparent arson attack
The apartment of an Eritrean couple in Jerusalem went up in flames last night, in what looks like another arson attack. Haaretz reports that at around 3 a.m., the man and the woman, who is seven months pregnant, awoke and tried to stamp out the fire with their feet. There are times when events are…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
July 12, 2012
Harsh prison sentence for Eritrean in order to ‘deter foreigners’
By Noam Wiener The Tel Aviv District Court, roughly comparable to a circuit court in the American federal system, sentenced on Wednesday an Eritrean refugee convicted of aggravated robbery to four and a half years imprisonment. Explaining the harsh sentence, he cited the need to deter “foreign citizens” from committing crimes. Without detracting from the brutality…
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May 31, 2012
UN refugee official: Deportation of Africans unlikely
An optimistic proposal, inspired by an interview with the UN refugee agency’s man in Israel. Last Friday, a couple of days after the south Tel Aviv riot, I interviewed William Tall, representative in Israel of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and came away thinking that there is a way to settle the crisis decently, which I didn’t think there was before.…
By
Larry Derfner
May 28, 2012
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