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Gerry Simpson

Gerry Simpson is Human Rights Watch’s senior refugee researcher and advocate.

Israeli immigration policemen force an African migrant onto a bus headed to a prison, during a protest in front of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem December 17, 2013. Israeli police on Tuesday sent back to custody more than 150 African migrants who had abandoned a desert holding facility in protest of a new law allowing them to be kept there indefinitely. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX16MBK

African asylum seekers in Israel march on Jerusalem to protest conditions