'Israel Making Desperate People's Lives Truly Miserable': The Persecution of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers: (Report)

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This 83-page report documents how Israel’s convoluted legal rules thwart Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers’ attempts to secure protection under Israeli and international law. Israeli authorities have labelled Eritreans and Sudanese a “threat”, branded them “infiltrators,” denied them access to fair and efficient asylum procedures, and used the resulting insecure legal status as a pretext to unlawfully detain or threaten to detain them indefinitely, coercing thousands into leaving.

 Make Their Lives Miserable
Israel’s Coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers to Leave Israel

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Make Their Lives Miserable
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