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JERUSALEM, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations High Commissioner1 for Refugees (UNHCR) joined a petition filed by human rights organizations to the Supreme2 Court against the Israeli law of infiltration3 and asked to revoke4 it, local media reported Tuesday.
The UNHCR's unprecedented5 move is an attempt to overturn a law which it claims "wrongly stigmatizes6 and penalizes7 those seeking refuge."
"UNHCR has direct interest in the outcome of this petition, as it raises a number of legal issues relating to entry, detention8 and removal of refugees and asylum9 seekers," it wrote, deeming that the law violates human rights and does not confirm with international human rights' protocols10.
In January 2012, the Knesset (parliament) passed several amendments11 as the "security measure" regarding the infiltration law. Among others, the law permits detaining all those in Israel who can not be deported13 to their countries of origin as it is too dangerous there.
The law enables to lock up asylum seekers for up to three years, after which it will reconsider their status, and it does not differentiate14 between asylum seekers, refugees and illegal migrants.
"The law does not differentiate between migrant workers and refugees or asylum seekers. They're all included in an infiltrator15 category. This law is stigmatizing16 and doesn't take into account special position of refugees and asylum-seekers under international law, or their vulnerability," the UNHCR wrote.
"Beyond an initial security screening, the automatic detention of refugees classified as infiltrators on the sole reason of having entered Israel irregularly does not meet international standards," the UNHCR wrote.
The law also permits the state to detain children. In response, the UNHCR wrote in its statement to the court that "children who are seeking asylum should in principal not be detained."
The amendments to the law were made in the past year as outgoing interior minister Eli Yishai declared his plan to repatriate17 nearly 60,000 African migrants living in Israel, including repatriation18 of several thousand migrants and the detention of others deemed unlawful by the Attorney General, who ordered last week not to deport12 any Eritrean migrants until further notice.
Thousands of Sudanese and Eritrean illegal migrants have already been arrested.
Yishai claimed that the migrants possess a "danger" to the state of Israel and its Jewish characteristics. The government completed a 240-km fence along the Egyptian-Israeli border to prevent migrants from infiltrating19 into the country.
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n.渗透;下渗;渗滤;入渗 | |
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v.使受耻辱,指责,污辱( stigmatize的第三人称单数 ) | |
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n.礼仪( protocol的名词复数 );(外交条约的)草案;(数据传递的)协议;科学实验报告(或计划) | |
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vt.驱逐出境 | |
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n.渗透者,渗入者 | |
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v.使受耻辱,指责,污辱( stigmatize的现在分词 ) | |
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v.(使)渗透,(指思想)渗入人的心中( infiltrate的现在分词 ) | |
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