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Date: Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:51 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Report: Tel Aviv police confiscate bicycles from refugees who can't prove ownership - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
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Report: Tel Aviv police confiscate bicycles from refugees who can't prove ownership
Police say the area around the Tel Aviv central bus station has become a hot spot for trade in stolen property, and cyclists are detained without discrimination.
By Ilan Lior
The police have begun confiscating their bicycles say refugees living in Israel who cannot prove they own them, according to the newspaper "The Refugee Voice," which is coming out with its second issue today.
Following a wave of bicycle thefts in Tel Aviv, police in the city instituted a new policy several weeks ago, confronting African asylum seekers who have bicycles and demanding proof they purchased the bikes and didn't than steal them, the paper said.
Faruk Musa, 20, an asylum seeker from Darfur in Sudan, said last month he was stopped by two policemen while he was on his way to work. He was traveling from his home in south Tel Aviv to the city center when police demanded a receipt for his bicycle. He had bought the bicycle on Hayarkon Street, but had lost the receipt, he told them. He said the police declined his offer to go with them to the bicycle shop. Instead they took his bicycle, which he not only found humiliating but also deprived him of transportation.
In response, the police said that the area around the Tel Aviv central bus station has become a hotspot for trade in stolen property, and cyclists are detained without discrimination by race, religion or national background, adding: "An individual who is wandering around under suspicious circumstances in possession of property for which he has no satisfactory explanation or evidence that he purchased it, arouses a reasonable suspicion that it is stolen property."
In other news related to the migrant population in Israel, the Population and Immigration Authority reported yesterday that more than 1,200 illegal immigrants had arrived in Israel in June, the highest monthly figure this year. In all of last year, more than 14,000 migrants crossing the border illegally from Egypt were registered by the authority, but it is thought the actual migration rate is about 20 percent higher.
Immigration Authority director general Amnon Ben-Ami said his agency is prepared to enforce the law against employers who illegally hire the migrants, but he said that until a detention center is completed in the Negev, the authority cannot fulfill its obligations.
"We are seeing that although Israel is embittering the lives of asylum seekers, they continue to arrive," said the public activity coordinator at Assaf, the Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel, adding: "Apparently, the horrors in the countries from which they are coming are greater." A detention center, she said, is not a moral or legal solution to the illegal immigration phenomenon, contending that international law requires Israel to accord social and economic benefits to asylum seekers, including the right to work. She said the work permits Israel is issuing results in the exploitation of the migrants.
A protest march organized by Israeli Children, an organization opposed to the deportation of the children of migrants, is planned for today in Tel Aviv to press their case. The march was initiated by mothers from the Philippines who entered Israel legally, but lost their work permits after becoming pregnant here.
Palash Biswas
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