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10 Mar, 2012

Israelis build the world’s biggest detention centre – The Independent

Israel is to begin construction soon on a vast detention facility in the Negev desert to house the thousands of immigrants that cross illegally into Israel from Egypt every year.

Human rights groups fear that the detention centre, the largest of its kind in the world, with a capacity to hold 8,000 migrants, will turn into a festering refugee camp, and deprive those escaping persecution at home of their rights to seek asylum in Israel.

via Israelis build the world’s biggest detention centre – Middle East – World – The Independent.