Hotline for migrant workers

Type: Organization

Name: Hotline for migrant workers

Nationality: Israel

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for Hotline for migrant workers

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Idriss Déby

Africa News in Brief: May 15-21 edition

Gold rush leads to mine collapse in North Sudan, 100 lives lost(GIN)—Efforts to ramp up Sudan’s gold mining industry came to a disastrous end last week as the 131 foot deep Jebel Amir mine collapsed taking 100 lives.Sudan had hoped to turn the country’s ... [Published Frost Illustrated - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Sudan, Idriss Déby, Custody, Hotline for migrant workers, Musa Hilal

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 3 reports

Israel exploited loophole to take 1,000 DNA samples from African refugees

Scandal, Politics, Law, IsraelIsraeli police have admitted to collecting some 1,000 DNA samples from African refugees who have arrived in the country since 2012, after using a security-related clause to open criminal cases against some of the immigra ... [Published Russia Today - May 08 2013]

Entities: Israel, DNA, Refugees

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Israeli court orders release of Sudanese migrant detained for a year

The Hotline for Migrant Workers, which represented the man, said the court's ruling could set a precedent for hundreds of asylum-seekers in similar situations. The Be'er Sheva District Court has ordered a Sudanese national freed after almost a year in ... [Published Haaretz - May 01 2013]

Entities: Sudanese, Court Order, Hotline for migrant workers, Be'er Sheva

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Israeli Supreme Court: "exceptional humanitarian reason" for release under the Anti-Infiltration Law

Israeli Supreme Court: Being a torture camps' survivor can be considered as an "exceptional humanitarian reason" for release under the Anti-Infiltration LawWe are happy to report that the Supreme Court accepted our appeal against a verdict issued in a ... [Published Asmarino Independent - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Torture, Israeli Supreme Court, Hotline for migrant workers

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Israel: New project in Israel for refugee and migrant children

Source: International Detention CoalitionCountry: Eritrea, Israel, Sudan On route to Israel refugees are tortured for ransom, in particular in the Sinai. About 1.5% of those held in the desert are children accompanied by their parents, or single mothers; ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Israel, Refugees, National Action, Eritrea

First reported Jan 02 2013 - Updated Jan 02 2013 - 1 reports

Israeli fence cuts off migrant flow

The number of migrants crossing the border between Egypt and Israel dropped to zero last week for the first time since 2006, as construction of the last small sections of a 240km fence is due to be completed in the coming weeks.A total of 36 migrants ... [Published Taipei Times Online - Jan 02 2013]

Entities: Israel, INFILTRATION, Eli Yishai

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"The food was two lumps of bread a day," he said. "Into the night I could hear cries of people being tortured."

Escape From An Eritrean Prison [Published Asmarino Independent - May 20 2013]

Israel described the deportations as “voluntary leave,” which the UN Refugee agency dismissed as unlikely. "Deporting Sudanese to Sudan would be the gravest violation possible of the refugee convention that Israel has signed – a crime never before committed" the UN representative to Israel Michael Bavli said

Israel exploited loophole to take 1,000 DNA samples from African refugees [Published Russia Today - May 08 2013]

...Migrant Workers, said that while the organization welcomed the court's decision, it was troubled by the phenomena of detaining migrant children. "We don’t see why it was necessary to lock up young children for such a long period, or why the state needed the court to see what is clear to everyone,? said Lerner, adding, "Children don’t belong behind bars, no matter what their origins.? The hotline called on the ministry to immediately release the rest of the children still being held at Saharonim, along with their parents."

Israel releases 19 African women and children from 'infiltration' detention center [Published Haaretz - May 07 2013]

...I was frustrated and depressed. I do not want to go to Uganda. Today they called me and gave me a handwritten form in Tigrinya which said: ` "I came from Eritrea to Israel illegally and now I want to go to Uganda voluntarily. To do this I would like the Eritrean embassy to issue me a passport and all the necessary documents.’ They asked me to sign it and wanted to take my picture on video. I refused.” "

Israel: Imprisoned Eritreans complain of being forced to leave Israel [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Mar 11 2013]

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