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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
High Court limits detention of migrants to a year
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe High Court of Justice has struck down most of an appeal filed by a human rights group against an amendment to a law cracking down on illegal African migrants.
The court ruled that illegal migrants can only be held at the Holot detention facility in the Negev for up to 12 months, down from the previous version of the legislation’s 20 months.
The ruling upheld the legislation’s clause allowing detention of asylum seekers for three months in the Saharonim facility.
The latest amendment of the law, the third thus far, sought to change the legislation’s unlimited detention of African migrants by reducing it to a maximum of 20 months.
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