'Make their lives miserable' – Israel’s coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to leave Israel (September 2014)

16th September 2014

'Make their lives miserable' – Israel’s coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to leave Israel (September 2014)

This 83-page Human Rights Watch report documents how Israel’s convoluted legal rules thwart Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers’ attempts to secure protection under Israeli and international law. Israeli authorities have labelled Eritreans and Sudanese a “threat”, branded them “infiltrators,” denied them access to fair and efficient asylum procedures, and used the resulting insecure legal status as a pretext to unlawfully detain or threaten to detain them indefinitely, coercing thousands into leaving.