Forbidding Asylum Seekers From Living in Tel Aviv or Eilat Reeks of Racism
Haaretz
Editorial--Jaafar, an asylum seeker from Sudan, was released from the
Holot detention facility this week after being held there without trial
for a year and eight months. His release follows a Supreme Court ruling
which determined that no individual can be detained at Holot for over a
year. But a scandalous decision by Interior Minister Silvan Shalom
forbidding released detainees to take up residence in Tel Aviv or Eilat,
and an even more outrageous one by Arad Mayor Nissan Ben Hamo to
station police and municipal inspectors at the entrance to his city,
which is meant to prevent former detainees from even visiting, have
forced Jaafar to spend his nights in a public park in Be’er Sheva. dn
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