Israel builds detention center in the desert for African Asylum seekers
The Isreali government has built a 9,000 person capacity detention facility in the southern desert where illegal African Immigrants would be detained. According to the Isreali government, the illegal immigrants who seek asylum in the country are becoming a burden to the govt and so they would be moved from the Shaharonim detention centre were they are presently being held to the new facility, a place human rights group have called a De-facto prison.
In
this new facility which is situated in the desert, the immigrants will be locked down at night, and forced to
check-in with
the Israeli authorities three times per day. They will also be barred
from working outside the centre. Continue...