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Deport 17 Foreigners In Assam Detention Centre: Supreme Court Tells Centre
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Union of India to deport 17 foreigners languishing in a Assam detention centre, noting there is no offence registered against them.
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Foreigners' Transit Camp In Assam Receives First Batch Of 68 Detainees
The first batch of 68 people declared foreigners by the Foreigners' Tribunal was moved to the newly built Assam's biggest detention centre, officially known as Transit Camp in Goalpara district.
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Woman Declared Indian Now Called Foreigner. Court Pulls Up Assam Tribunal
A Foreigners' Tribunal's flip flop on a woman in Assam -- first declaring her an Indian and less than five years later a foreigner -- has irked the Gauhati High Court, which ordered her release from the detention camp and pulled up the tribunal.
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Assam Renames "Foreigner" Detention Centres As Transit Camps
The Assam government has renamed detention centres for foreigners to transit camps to humanise them. A 12-year-old notification was modified to rename the six detention centres in the state.
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Group Asks Court To Free People From Assam Detention Camps Amid COVID-19
Amid the national lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic, a rights group from Assam has asked the Chief Justice of India to release "declared foreigners" from six detention centres in the state on humanitarian grounds.
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Man Who Couldn't Attend Citizenship Hearings Freed From Assam Camp
The Gauhati High Court has set aside an order by a foreigners' tribunal in Assam and freed a man from detention centre and has asked the tribunal for a fresh hearing of his citizenship claims. The court observed that he should get one last chance since he was declared a foreigner in an ex parte order as he never appeared for trial.
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"Don't Know Parents' Birthplace, Will Go To Detention Camp": Ashok Gehlot
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday demanded that the centre withdraw the amended citizenship law to maintain peace and harmony in the country.
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"Gave Rs 46 Crore For India's Biggest Detention Camp": Tarun Gogoi Questions PM's Denial
Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that the country has no detention camps, saying that states were asked to set up such facilities to house illegal immigrants way back in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee era.
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"Nobody Excluded From NRC Living In Detention Camps": Amit Shah
There is no connection between detention centres and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview with news agency ANI, rubbishing reports that purpose-built jails to lock up those who don't make it to the citizens' list are coming up in some parts of the country...
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Supreme Court Sets Aside Plea For Humane Facilities At 6 Assam Detention Camps
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere in a petition seeking humane facilities at six detention centres in Assam for those who do not qualify as Indian citizens as per the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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3 Of 28 Dead In Detention Camps Bangladeshis: Assam Government
Only three of the 28 people who died of various illness so far at detention camps in Assam had their addresses in Bangladesh, the state Assembly was informed on Saturday.
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Another Man In Assam Detention Camp Dies, Family Refuses To Accept Body
A man lodged in a detention camp for declared foreigners in Assam died on Thursday due to "deteriorating health", days after another detainee passed away due to poor health. The incident has prompted the Assam government toreview the conditions in state detention centres.
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India's 1st Illegal Immigrant Detention Camp Size Of 7 Football Fields
About 150 kilometre west of Guwahati, construction is on in full swing to build India's first detention centre for those declared foreigners after the publication of the contentious Assam National Register of Citizens or NRC last month.
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Woman's Facebook Post On Those Left Out Of Assam NRC Lands Her In Trouble
A woman author, who allegedly suggested in a Facebook post that those left out of the National Register of Citizens, be put in detention camps after being sterlised, has been booked by Kerala Police.
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Assam Frees Nine "Declared Foreigners" Ahead Of Citizens List Publication
At least nine people who were declared as foreigners and lodged in the detention camp at Goalpara Jail were released today, ahead of the final publication of the National Register of Citizens in Assam.
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Deport 17 Foreigners In Assam Detention Centre: Supreme Court Tells Centre
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Union of India to deport 17 foreigners languishing in a Assam detention centre, noting there is no offence registered against them.
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Foreigners' Transit Camp In Assam Receives First Batch Of 68 Detainees
The first batch of 68 people declared foreigners by the Foreigners' Tribunal was moved to the newly built Assam's biggest detention centre, officially known as Transit Camp in Goalpara district.
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Woman Declared Indian Now Called Foreigner. Court Pulls Up Assam Tribunal
A Foreigners' Tribunal's flip flop on a woman in Assam -- first declaring her an Indian and less than five years later a foreigner -- has irked the Gauhati High Court, which ordered her release from the detention camp and pulled up the tribunal.
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Assam Renames "Foreigner" Detention Centres As Transit Camps
The Assam government has renamed detention centres for foreigners to transit camps to humanise them. A 12-year-old notification was modified to rename the six detention centres in the state.
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Group Asks Court To Free People From Assam Detention Camps Amid COVID-19
Amid the national lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic, a rights group from Assam has asked the Chief Justice of India to release "declared foreigners" from six detention centres in the state on humanitarian grounds.
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Man Who Couldn't Attend Citizenship Hearings Freed From Assam Camp
The Gauhati High Court has set aside an order by a foreigners' tribunal in Assam and freed a man from detention centre and has asked the tribunal for a fresh hearing of his citizenship claims. The court observed that he should get one last chance since he was declared a foreigner in an ex parte order as he never appeared for trial.
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"Don't Know Parents' Birthplace, Will Go To Detention Camp": Ashok Gehlot
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday demanded that the centre withdraw the amended citizenship law to maintain peace and harmony in the country.
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"Gave Rs 46 Crore For India's Biggest Detention Camp": Tarun Gogoi Questions PM's Denial
Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that the country has no detention camps, saying that states were asked to set up such facilities to house illegal immigrants way back in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee era.
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"Nobody Excluded From NRC Living In Detention Camps": Amit Shah
There is no connection between detention centres and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview with news agency ANI, rubbishing reports that purpose-built jails to lock up those who don't make it to the citizens' list are coming up in some parts of the country...
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Supreme Court Sets Aside Plea For Humane Facilities At 6 Assam Detention Camps
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere in a petition seeking humane facilities at six detention centres in Assam for those who do not qualify as Indian citizens as per the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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3 Of 28 Dead In Detention Camps Bangladeshis: Assam Government
Only three of the 28 people who died of various illness so far at detention camps in Assam had their addresses in Bangladesh, the state Assembly was informed on Saturday.
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Another Man In Assam Detention Camp Dies, Family Refuses To Accept Body
A man lodged in a detention camp for declared foreigners in Assam died on Thursday due to "deteriorating health", days after another detainee passed away due to poor health. The incident has prompted the Assam government toreview the conditions in state detention centres.
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India's 1st Illegal Immigrant Detention Camp Size Of 7 Football Fields
About 150 kilometre west of Guwahati, construction is on in full swing to build India's first detention centre for those declared foreigners after the publication of the contentious Assam National Register of Citizens or NRC last month.
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Woman's Facebook Post On Those Left Out Of Assam NRC Lands Her In Trouble
A woman author, who allegedly suggested in a Facebook post that those left out of the National Register of Citizens, be put in detention camps after being sterlised, has been booked by Kerala Police.
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Assam Frees Nine "Declared Foreigners" Ahead Of Citizens List Publication
At least nine people who were declared as foreigners and lodged in the detention camp at Goalpara Jail were released today, ahead of the final publication of the National Register of Citizens in Assam.
