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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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Uyghur Camps Turned Into Prisons, Detainees Get Long Sentences: Report
Under the guise of a poverty alleviation campaign, Beijing has been forcing tens of thousands of rural Uyghurs out of their villages and into factories.
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France Brings Back 15 Women, 32 Children From Syrian Detention Camps
Since the "caliphate" fell in 2019, the return of family members of fighters who were captured or killed has been a thorny issue for European countries.
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"Enrol In Voters' List, Citizens' Register Is A Shame": Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged the people of the state to ensure that their names feature on the electoral roll to avoid getting sent to detention camps under the garb of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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Ensure Name On Voter List To Avoid Detention Under Citizenship Law NRC: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today asked people of the state to ensure that their names are on the electoral roll to avoid getting sent to detention camps under the garb of enforcing NRC.
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Four Torture Sites Found In Kherson After Russia Retreat: Ukraine
Ukraine said Monday that it had identified four locations where Russian forces tortured detainees in Kherson before Moscow withdrew troops from the southern Ukrainian city.
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Germany Brings Back 12 Citizens From Syrian Detention Camp
Germany on Wednesday said it had resolved "almost all known cases" of its citizens stuck in Syrian jihadist camps, after announcing the repatriation of 12 people.
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6 Dead, Hundreds Of Rohingyas Flee Malaysian Detention Camp After Riots
Six Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including two children, have died after being hit by vehicles on a Malaysian highway as hundreds fled an immigration detention centre.
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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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Oldest Prisoner At Guantanamo Bay Camp To Be Extradited Soon: Pakistan
A 73-year-old man from Pakistan who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility at the US base in Cuba will soon return to the country, the government informed the Senate on Friday.
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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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Indian-Origin Journalist Wins Pulitzer Prize For Exposing China's Detention Camps For Muslims
Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and camps secretly built by China for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Xinjiang.
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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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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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Uyghur Camps Turned Into Prisons, Detainees Get Long Sentences: Report
Under the guise of a poverty alleviation campaign, Beijing has been forcing tens of thousands of rural Uyghurs out of their villages and into factories.
-
France Brings Back 15 Women, 32 Children From Syrian Detention Camps
Since the "caliphate" fell in 2019, the return of family members of fighters who were captured or killed has been a thorny issue for European countries.
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"Enrol In Voters' List, Citizens' Register Is A Shame": Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged the people of the state to ensure that their names feature on the electoral roll to avoid getting sent to detention camps under the garb of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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Ensure Name On Voter List To Avoid Detention Under Citizenship Law NRC: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today asked people of the state to ensure that their names are on the electoral roll to avoid getting sent to detention camps under the garb of enforcing NRC.
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Four Torture Sites Found In Kherson After Russia Retreat: Ukraine
Ukraine said Monday that it had identified four locations where Russian forces tortured detainees in Kherson before Moscow withdrew troops from the southern Ukrainian city.
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Germany Brings Back 12 Citizens From Syrian Detention Camp
Germany on Wednesday said it had resolved "almost all known cases" of its citizens stuck in Syrian jihadist camps, after announcing the repatriation of 12 people.
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6 Dead, Hundreds Of Rohingyas Flee Malaysian Detention Camp After Riots
Six Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including two children, have died after being hit by vehicles on a Malaysian highway as hundreds fled an immigration detention centre.
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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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Oldest Prisoner At Guantanamo Bay Camp To Be Extradited Soon: Pakistan
A 73-year-old man from Pakistan who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility at the US base in Cuba will soon return to the country, the government informed the Senate on Friday.
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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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Indian-Origin Journalist Wins Pulitzer Prize For Exposing China's Detention Camps For Muslims
Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and camps secretly built by China for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Xinjiang.
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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.
