Israel: ’Bring back our brothers’ - African migrants decry Israel’s detention of asylum-seekers

Hundreds of African migrants marched from the Holot detention centre to the Saharonim Prison in Israel’s southern Negev region on Thursday, after seven Eritreans who refused deportation were imprisoned. The protesters said they were on hunger strike and would not eat until the seven aslyum-seekers were set free. They chanted slogans as they marched: “We are not criminals; we are refugees“ and “Bring back our brothers“, and raised their arms in the air as if they were chained. “The Israeli government forc