Refugee and Asylum Seeker Rights

Our office has succeeded in court cases against the Ministry of Interior in delaying and even preventing the detention and holding of asylum seekers from Sudan, Eritrea, and Darfur in Holot, due to administrative failures in the detention process or other personal circumstances that justified preventing detention.

Our office has experience in filing administrative petitions in individual cases of asylum seekers who have been living in the country for years, and whom the state seeks to send to the open detention facility in Holot or back to their country of origin.

The detention of an asylum seeker in Israel and their transfer to the Holot facility not only disrupts the course of the asylum seeker’s life and work, on whom employers often depend, not only does it effectively prevent their freedom as it is a detention facility in every sense, but it is often done contrary to the law.

Zari Hazan & Co. Law Offices is well-versed in refugee issues as discussed in the UN, in the various refugee conventions to which Israel is a signatory, and in the courses of action to be taken for asylum seekers in Israel. Additionally, our office accompanies the Darfur community in their struggle to receive refugee status in the State of Israel.