Tag Archive: Asaf Weitzen

30 June 2016

Leading Sudanese Refugee Activist Granted Asylum

After seven years of legal appeals, Mutasim Ali has become the first Sudanese asylum seeker to obtain refugee status in Israel.

19 November 2014

138 Asylum Seekers to be Released

Following two years of detention, 138 African asylum seekers will finally be released.

17 September 2013

Landmark Ruling on Refugees in Israel

Asaf Weitzen, 34, is a lawyer with Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, one of the petitioners in the historic Supreme Court case challenging the Anti-Infiltration Law, which incarcerated more than 2000 African refugees without due process or recourse to the possibility of asylum. Following the verdict, NIF spoke to him to get his reaction to the landmark victory.

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