African asylum seekers in Israel march on Jerusalem to protest conditions

Israeli immigration policemen force an African migrant onto a bus headed to a prison, during a protest in front of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem December 17, 2013. Israeli police on Tuesday sent back to custody more than 150 African migrants who had abandoned a desert holding facility in protest of a new law allowing them to be kept there indefinitely. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX16MBK

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An African migrant walks outside the Holot open detention centre in Israel's southern Negev desert September 22, 2014. Israel's high court on Monday outlawed a detention centre where African migrants are held without trial and ordered some 2,000 inmates there released over the next three months. REUTERS/ Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION) - RTR47A6X

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African asylum seekers in Israel march on Jerusalem to protest conditions

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