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Assam detention centres for ‘foreigners’ renamed ‘transit camps’
A notification issued by the Assam government on Tuesday says the nomenclature of the "Detention centre is changed to Transit Camp for detention purpose”.
Assam woman declared ‘foreigner’ 6 years ago gets reinstated as Indian citizen
On October 7, when Dulabjan Begum came out of a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) office in Assam’s Silchar town, her tears did not stop streaming...
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Detention centers can never be a legitimate state response to migration and no human being is illegal: Public statement
Collective Against Detention (CAD) and Right to Nationality and Citizenship Network (RNCN), two rights watchdogs, unequivocally demand an end to arbitrarily declaring people as foreigners in Assam.
68 ‘foreigners’ shifted to Assam’s new “Transit Camp”
The first batch of at least 68 people declared as “foreigners” by Assam authorities were moved to the newly built Matia Transit Camp — the...
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31 “declared foreigners” died in detention centres from 2016 to 2021: Data
A total of 31 persons who were declared foreigners have died in Assam’s six detention centres between 2016 and 2022, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in the state assembly.
Being excluded from NRC affects every stage of life: Assam scholar Abdul Kalam Azad
Abdul Kalam Azad is a human rights researcher, community worker, and writer based in Assam. He is working on his Ph.D. thesis on Assam’s citizenship crisis at Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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