Topic: Assam
“Indiscriminate arrests not solution to child marriage”, Assam govt hunts Muslim families, alleges Muslim girls group
Indiscriminate arrests are not a solution to child marriage, said Girls Islamic Organisation while calling the state-wide crackdown in Assam “extremely shameful and condemnable.”
Assam’s crackdown on child marriage: Woman dies by suicide fearing parent’s arrest
Amid the new crackdown on child marriages by the Assam police, a mother of two kids died by suicide in the South Salmara-Mankachar district,...
Over 2,000 arrested in Assam’s cracks down on child marriages; TMC says “only immediate violators should be arrested”
Within a day after the Assam government launched a crackdown on child marriage, over 2000 men are arrested from across the state for allegedly...
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...
Assam Muslim declared ‘foreigner’ by tribunal: Gauhati High Court quashes 2018 decision
The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday set aside an order declaring a Muslim man, Assam resident, as a foreigner, observing that the Foreigners Tribunal did not take note of the material on record while passing the decision.
