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Monday, August 10, 2015
High Court to rule on new African asylum-seeker law
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe High Court of Justice is set to publish its third major ruling on African asylum seekers tomorrow morning, the Court Secretariat says Monday.
The Infiltration Prevention Law has already been ruled unconstitutional twice by the High Court. Previous versions allowed migrants fleeing African conflicts to be incarcerated indefinitely while the state declined to examine their refugee applications.
The new law, passed in December 2014, is softened, allowing migrants more freedom of movement in Israel and limiting incarceration to two years. Those stipulations still fail to meet Israeli and international standards for refugee protection, say the NGOs who appealed against it to the High Court.
Some 45,000 African asylum seekers currently reside in Israel.
The Times of Israel Community.