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An african asylum seeker who had been detained at the Saharonim prison for refusing to be reported, leaves prison after the High Court ruled there was no legal justification to keep them in detention. April 15, 2018. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

In limbo, asylum seekers await government’s next move

In the absence of a UN deal and with the collapse of Israel’s mass deportation plan, African asylum seekers again face an uncertain future. The roughly 38,000 asylum seekers living in Israel, most of whom fled Eritrea and Sudan, again face an uncertain future. The Israeli government’s mass deportation plan collapsed last week after the…

By Joshua Leifer April 29, 2018

Ibrahim, a refugee from Sudan, holds a document given to him by the UN in Egypt, as he takes part in a protest held by refugees and activists outside the UN offices in Tel Aviv, June 10, 2012 (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Would Israel’s refugee policies stand up in… Nairobi?

Israel could learn a thing or two from the Kenyan High Court’s rebuttal of efforts to lock up asylum seekers. There are judges in Nairobi [1], and they are more courageous and much more familiar with refugee law than judges in Jerusalem. A Kenyan court last month published a ruling on a government decision to…

By Laissez Passer August 11, 2013