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From the Liveblog of Thursday, February 22, 2018

Hundreds of African migrants protest detentions

22 February 2018, 4:13 pm

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Hundreds of African migrants protest Thursday outside an Israeli prison where at least nine have been incarcerated under Israel’s controversial new policy of expelling or imprisoning them.

African migrants protest outside the Saharonim Prison, a detention facility for African asylum seekers, in the southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

They march a short distance from the Holot open detention center to Saharonim Prison, chanting slogans and carrying signs demanding the prisoners’ release.

They say they are on a hunger strike and vow to continue it until a solution is reached.

Israel is preparing to deport thousands of Eritreans and Sudanese who entered the country illegally and who do not have asylum claims under examination.

— AFP

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