Category: "Ministry of Interior"

Cumulative failings of the Israeli Ministry of Interior kept Semere in detention for eight months and four years without a visa. Thanks to the Hotline’s intervention, Semere is now free, but frustrated that his basic rights and...

In 2006, Israel enacted a comprehensive law banning human trafficking in its various forms. Israel is also a signatory of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons and several other conventions against this...

Written by: Elizabeth Tsurkov Asylum-seekers who reside in Israel have to renew their visa every one to two months. Without a valid visa, asylum-seekers cannot work, access their bank accounts, and most importantly, face arrest and detention...

Dozens of asylum-seekers have been arrested in Israel in the past three weeks for not holding a valid visa – after the Ministry of Interior have been refusing, in the past two months, to renew visas of...

A joint project of the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Duration of the project: January 2014 – December 2015. The Removing Barriers Project aims to...

Asylum-seekers often turn to us at the Hotline due to bureaucratic abuse at the hand of Ministry of Interior clerks, but we haven’t encountered such a kafkaesque story in a while. Mahari is an Eritrean asylum-seeker who...