Assam: 'I was pushed across the border into Bangladesh at gunpoint'

Assam: 'I was pushed across the border into Bangladesh at gunpoint'

The BBC met people in India's Assam who say they were accused of being illegal immigrants and forced across the border.

When Bangladesh Opposes India’s Push Back Policy

After a number of incidents and subsequent news appeared in media outlets, an adviser in the Bangladesh interim government, led by Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, stated that Dhaka had officially protested against the Push Back policy, which was adopted by the Indian agencies to deport undocumented Bangladeshi migrants from the south Asian nation. Bangla foreign affairs adviser Touhid Hossain also added that a formal letter was sent to the Uni…

"End all pushbacks": Activists, academics join public statement against forced deportation by Indian government

Human rights advocates, academics, and lawyers across India are condemning the Indian government’s deportation of people from Assam to Bangladesh, calling it a violation of constitutional and human rights protections. In an undated public statement, endorsed by academics and activists, 125 signatories called for an end to all “pushbacks” and “allow the return of those citizens who have already been forcibly deported to Bangladesh”.   It noted th…

CJP’s submits supplementary memo to NHRC revealing returnee testimonies after Assam’s allegedly unlawful expulsion of persons to Bangladesh

Latest submission documents the late night detentions and expulsions that violated all procedures, family testimonies, amounting to the forced abandonment of persons in Bangladeshi borderlands.

Bangladesh says India pushed over 1,200 people across border in a month

BANGLADESH on Wednesday said Indian authorities have pushed more than 1,270 people across the border over the past month. The group includes mostly Bangladeshis, along with Indian citizens and Rohingya refugees.Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) officials said, “Between May 7 and June 3, Indian authorities pushed in 1,272 individuals, including a few Indian citizens and Rohingya, through 19 bordering districts.” They added, “Only yesterday, they push…