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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Shaikh Azizur Rahman in Kolkata

India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups

A woman wearing a sari sitting on the ground
Hazera Khatun sits outside her home in Assam, India. The 62-year-old was detained with others and sent to Bangladesh, accused of being an ‘illegal foreigner’. Photograph: Kazi Sharowar Hussain/Supplied

The Indian government has been accused of illegally deporting Indian Muslims to Bangladesh, prompting fears of an escalating campaign of persecution.

Thousands of people, largely Muslims suspected of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, have been rounded up by police across India in recent weeks, according to human rights groups, with many of them deprived of due legal process and sent over the border to neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh.

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