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.

"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…

CJP submits supplementary memo to NHRC with survivor and family testimonies on Assam’s expulsions of Bengali-speaking Muslims

What We Know So Far: June 5, 2025 In a deeply unsettling supplementary memorandum submitted to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on June 4, 2025, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) have presented new evidence of a systematic campaign of detentions and cross-border expulsions of Bengali-speaking Muslim persons from Assam, without following due legal process. Based on over a dozen first-person testimonies and verified field documentati…