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Detained South Africans return home

28 November 2016 • News, VOC News • No Comments

Two South African youth activists returned home this weekend, after being detained and deported from Israel. Wits student, Laeeqa Sujee was deported from Israel following her unlawful detention in Tel-Aviv. The 21 year old physiotherapy student was travelling to Palestine for a Youth Camp hosted by the Palestinian Higher Council[…]

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Sudanese refugees deported from Jordan

3 February 2016 • International, News • No Comments

Refugees sent back to Sudan say they are being pursued by authorities there, and hope to flee again. In 2013, Nour Issa and Ahmed Hakim, both in their 20s, fled Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region to Khartoum, and then flew to Jordan. But last December, hundreds of Sudanese refugees, including Issa[…]

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