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New York: The New York-based human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, has said that Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar without rights protections since May 2025.<\/p>\nNew York: The New York-based human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, has said that Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar without rights protections since May 2025.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, Human Rights Watch said the Indian authorities have arbitrarily detained several hundred more, mistreating some of them. Those expelled to Bangladesh included at least 192 Rohingyas despite being registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The authorities also put 40 refugees on a ship near the Myanmar coast and forced them to swim ashore, the watchdog said<\/p>\n
In May, states governed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) initiated a campaign to expel Rohingya and Bengali-speaking Muslims for being \u201cillegal immigrants.\u201d Those expelled to Bangladesh included at least 192 Rohingya refugees despite being registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Indian government\u2019s expulsion of Rohingya refugees shows an utter disregard for human life and international law,\u201d said Elaine Pearson, Asia Director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cThe actions taken against these refugees, who have fled atrocities and persecution in Myanmar, reflects the ruling BJP\u2019s policy to demonise Muslims as \u2018illegal\u2019 migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n
HRW said interviews with nine Rohingya men and women in Bangladesh\u2019s Cox\u2019s Bazar refugee camps revealed accounts of abuse. Six refugees expelled in May said that Indian authorities assaulted them and confiscated their money, phones, and UNHCR registration cards. Three others said they fled voluntarily \u2014 one each from Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, and Delhi \u2014 after police threatened them with arbitrary detention.<\/p>\n
Expulsions by Force<\/p>\n
A 37-year-old Rohingya woman detained in Assam\u2019s Goalpara district said India\u2019s Border Security Force (BSF) officers forced her family into Bangladesh at gunpoint on May 6. \u201cWhen my husband asked where we should go, they slapped him so hard he still cannot hear properly,\u201d she said. \u201cThey threatened to kill us if we spoke further.\u201d The family had originally fled Myanmar in 2012 to escape military persecution.<\/p>\n
Reports of Abuse<\/p>\n
HRW reported that authorities in Jammu vandalised Rohingya shelters and arrested at least 30 refugees in May. One Rohingya woman said police dismissed both her UNHCR and Myanmar nationality documents, calling her a \u201cBengali,\u201d before she fled to Bangladesh with her children.<\/p>\n
India\u2019s Supreme Court has announced it will rule on whether Rohingya are \u201crefugees\u201d or \u201cillegal entrants,\u201d with the next hearing scheduled for September 23.<\/p>\n
HRW urged India to immediately end arbitrary detentions and expulsions and recognise Rohingya as refugees. \u201cThe authorities should work with UNHCR to protect their rights instead of violating them,\u201d HRW\u2019s Asia Director Pearson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York: The New York-based human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, has said that Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar without rights protections since May 2025. According to Kashmir Media Service, Human Rights Watch said the Indian authorities have arbitrarily detained several hundred more, mistreating some of them. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}