Israel's AG Defends Detention Of Migrants For Minor Crimes
The government is enforcing new regulations, under which migrants can face prolonged incarceration for relatively minor offenses, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said Monday, during a tour of south Tel Aviv’s Levinsky Park and the Neveh Sha’anan neighborhood, where many African migrants live
“We have lowered the threshold for offenses that are a real threat to public safety and we are strict about this threshold,” Weinstein said.
Referring to two recent cases in which Sudanese migrants were imprisoned without being brought before a court, Weinstein said that it was right that both suspects had been subsequently released. “I don’t regret it for a moment… It says nothing about future cases. Each case will be examined individually,“ he said, during a discussion with members of a grass-roots neighborhood action group.
Neither of the suspects, one of whom was held on suspicion of stealing a bicycle and the other on suspicion of rape, was ever charged.
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