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Fortify Rights Urges India to End Unlawful Expulsions of Rohingya Refugees and Muslim Citizens

August 3, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

The Indian government must immediately end its unlawful campaign of expulsion against Indian Muslim citizens and Rohingya refugees, said Fortify Rights. The move comes as the Indian authorities in recent months have been arbitrarily arresting, detaining, torturing and coercively removing members of Muslim minorities — including those with valid documentation or citizenship — as well […]

India’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims isn’t a policy failure. It’s political scapegoating.

June 28, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

The ruling BJP is targeting a vulnerable refugee population to distract from their own domestic and international failures. In mid-May, the world watched in horror as Indian authorities detained around 40 Rohingya refugees across the country: in shackles, blindfolded, and according to some reports, subjected to beatings and sexual harassment. Indian naval officers then threw them into the sea off […]

48 Rohingyas UN registered in India pushed into Bangladesh

June 13, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

The Border Security Force of India has recently pushed at least 122 Rohingyas, including 48 registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh. The Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner said that they could detect 117 Rohingyas, including 43 registered by the UNHCR in India, who were pushed […]

Crackdown on Refugees in India Sends Shockwaves Through Christian Rohingya Community

June 8, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

Church members recall receiving calls from family members after India cast them into the sea, forcing them to swim to Myanmar’s shores. For the past 13 years, the small Christian Rohingya community in Delhi—which numbers 150—has rented rooms to worship in three congregations each Sunday. The two pastors had been going through the Sermon on […]

Bangladesh Says India Pushes Back 1,272 People, including Indians, Rohingya

June 5, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

Bangladesh said Wednesday that neighbouring India has pushed more than 1,270 people across its border in the past month, mainly Bangladeshis, but also Indian citizens and Rohingya refugees. Bangladesh, largely encircled by land by India, has seen relations with New Delhi turn icy since a mass uprising toppled Dhaka’s previous government last year. “Between 7 […]

India has deported a Rohingya human rights defender after detaining him for years without due process, disregarding a UN ruling and concerns for his safety.

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

May 6 marked the final day of Rohingya human rights defender Mohammad Arfat’s arbitrary detention in Indian jails. After more than four years behind bars, he was taken to the Bangladesh border and deported under the cover of darkness along with two other Bangladeshi migrants. “Don’t come back. We will shoot you directly,” warned an […]

False news in Indian media, strong response from the Bangladeh military

June 2, 2025June 2, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

Dhaka, 01 June 2025 (Sunday): The article titled “Bangladesh to declare Cox’s Bazar to Bandarban area as a military operations zone” by Northeast News is a clear example of deliberate disinformation propagated by segments of the Indian media seeking to destabilize Bangladesh’s internal cohesion and undermine its armed forces. The insinuation that the Bangladesh Army […]

India defence chief says jet downed in Pakistan conflict

June 1, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

AFP Singapore India’s defence chief on Saturday appeared to confirm his country had lost at least one aircraft during the brief conflict with Pakistan earlier this month, he told Bloomberg in an interview. India and Pakistan were engaged in a four-day conflict this month, their worst standoff since 1999, before a ceasefire was agreed on […]

Amidst Increasing Crackdown, Rohingya Refugees in Jammu caught between arbitrary detentions and fears of deportation

May 28, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

Navigating an existential crisis, refugees continue their desperate effort to assert their status as asylum seekers, not illegal migrants. By Basharat Amin The narrow and shrunken lane of Mecca Masjid Chowk (Mecca mosque square) in Jammu bustled with the usual chaos – shouts of vendors, the chatter of customers. Gouramya, a 40-year-old Rohingya Muslim refugee, […]

Caught between Myanmar’s repression and India’s pushbacks, Rohingya suffer

May 28, 2025WSNews24Leave a Comment

In Rakhine, the Arakan Army – like the military junta – is forcibly recruiting men and women, exacerbating the civil war and aggravating the humanitarian crisis. Meanwhile, Rohingya face continued abuses after fleeing abroad. India is accused of arbitrarily detaining refugees and illegally pushing some back at sea, while fuelling the stigmatisation of Muslim refugees […]

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