Israeli forces arrest an African protester in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) on December 17, 2014.
Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:31AM GMT
The Israeli regime is secretly transferring African refugees to Uganda, a report by an Israeli newspaper says.
Over the past month, dozens of the Africans left for Uganda while some had already departed, a Wednesday report by Haaretz quoted a senior Israeli official as saying.
The paper obtained information about a Sudanese inmate of Israel’s Saharonim prison in the Negev Desert, who ended up in Uganda.
“The man called his friends in Israel and said there were six other asylum seekers from Sudan with him on the flight, all of whom had been released from Saharonim,” the report said.
Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority declined to comment on the matter.
In June 2013, an Israeli official told the regime’s supreme court that an agreement had been reached with an unnamed third country ready to take in the African refugees.
African asylum seekers have been protesting against the Israeli regime’s violation of their rights, including implementation of an anti-infiltration law that allows Israel to jail illegal asylum seekers without charge.
Human Right Watch has said that Tel Aviv uses the “threat of prolonged detention” to force the African migrants give up their asylum claims, adding, “Israel should end its unlawful detention policy and release all asylum seekers.”
NT/MHB/SS
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