Saturday, April 20, 2024

Topic: Detention centre

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.

“None feel at home,” says Rohingya refugee threatened with deportation

Abdul Rohim’s 8-year-old daughter, who till now has only seen her real home in pictures, wants to leave India and go back. She was...

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.

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”.