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Israel Supreme Court: Holot is illegal, Africans jailed in desert must be freed within 90 days

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September 22, 2014

Story has been updated multiple times to include additional interviews and information.

The Supreme Court of Israel ruled this evening to close a desert prison called Holot, a facility that Israeli lawmakers created last December to indefinitely hold African asylum seekers who had “infiltrated” the border.

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