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‘Slaves for sale’ in Israel

ERITREAN migrants staged a mock slave auction outside the Israeli Knesset today in protest against government plans to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum-seekers to Uganda and Rwanda. 

Around 10 men took part in the protest covered in chains with their mouths tapped up as another man shouted through a megaphone: “Get your slaves. Slaves for half price.”

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