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"They bound our hands, covered our faces and brought us like captives [on to the boat]. He also said the prosecution had not provided enough evidence to substantiate their claims.
Since then, the court has agreed to hear arguments on 29 September to decide whether the Rohingya can be treated as refugees or if they are illegal immigrants and therefore subject to deportations.
Considering that tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees are living in India, it's not clear why so much effort was devoted to deporting these 40 people.
"Nobody in India can understand why they did it, apart from this venom against Muslims," said Mr Gonsalves.
The treatment of the refugees has sent a chill throughout the Rohingya community in India.
Recent allegations of deportations from the country must be urgently, independently and transparently investigated.
Aakar PatelCruel and unlawful deportations
Forcibly returning Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar is both cruel and unlawful. And now we are scared to even step out of our homes," Mr Amin said.
"These are people who are in India not because they want to be," said Mr Andrews from the UN.
"They're there because of the horrific violence that is occurring in Myanmar.
They then made their way to shore and are now facing an uncertain future in Myanmar, which the mostly-Muslim Rohingya community had fled in huge numbers in recent years to escape persecution.
The refugees were made to board two of the boats, 20 on each and accompanied by several of the people transporting them.
A small number are Hindus and Christians. But Human Rights Watch estimates that the actual number is upwards of 40,000.
On 6 May the 40 Rohingya refugees, who had UNHCR refugee cards and lived in different parts of Delhi, were taken to their local police stations under the guise of collecting biometric data.
On this World Refugee Day, we call upon him and the Government of India to stand for this principle by recognizing and protecting the Rohingya as refugees living in India.”
'India put us on the boat like captives - then threw us in the sea'
Samira HussainSouth Asia Correspondent, BBC News, Delhi
Noorul Amin last spoke to his brother on 9 May.
The call was brief, but the news was devastating. Guterres described Cox’s Bazar (where the Rohingya camps are situated) as “ground zero” for the impact of these cuts, warning of a looming humanitarian disaster if immediate action is not taken.
The visiting guest joined with the Rohingya for Iftar (not on the same menu as the refugees).
This should include crimes committed by ARSA and similar groups, said Fortify Rights.
In 2019, the British-born ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan at the time said the court was “aware of a number of acts of violence allegedly committed by ARSA,” noting that the allegations would be kept “under review.”
First published in the Stratheia Policy Journal, Islamabad, Pakistan on 23 March 2025
India: Stop unlawful deportations and protect Rohingya refugees
The Indian government must immediately halt all deportations of Rohingya men, women and children, recognize them as refugees and treat them with the dignity and protection they deserve under international human rights law, Amnesty International said ahead of World Refugee Day.
In just the last month, the Indian authorities allegedly deported at least 40 Rohingya refugees, including children and older people, by forcing them off a naval ship and giving them life jackets before abandoning them in international waters near Myanmar.
Three significant developments have occurred in a week which once again brought the much-talked-about Rohingya refugee crisis to the global media.
First, last week United Nations Secretary General António Guterres visited the Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in south-east Bangladesh. He admitted the amount of information he could share was limited, but that he had also "spoken with eyewitnesses and been able to corroborate those reports and establish that they are based in fact".
On 17 May, Mr Amin and another family member of the refugees who were removed filed a petition urging India's Supreme Court to bring them back to Delhi, immediately stop similar deportations and offer compensation to all 40 individuals.
"It opened up the country to the awfulness of the Rohingya deportation," says Colin Gonsalves, a senior advocate in the Supreme Court who is arguing on behalf of the petitioners.
"That you can drop a person in the sea with a life jacket in a war zone was something people automatically chose to disbelieve," Mr Gonsalves said.
In response to the petition, one Supreme Court judge on the two-judge bench called the allegations "fanciful ideas".
Besides Bangladesh, Rohingyas are languishing in camps in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The troops torched hundreds of villages and went on a rampage for months despite international calls to cease brutality against the Rohingyas.
The Naypyidaw labeled ARSA as an “extremist Bengali terrorists, also Rohingya Muslim terrorists,” warning that its goal is to establish an Islamic state in the Rakhine state.
"After getting off the plane, we saw that two buses had come to receive us," said Mr Noor on the video call. India must ratify the 1951 Refugee Convention and bring national laws in line with international obligations on refugee protection,” said Aakar Patel.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often emphasized India’s commitment to Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, the belief that the world is one family.
Dhaka does not recognize ethnic military command to be a legitimate authority to hold official talks. Also has imposed restrictions on international NGOs and aid agencies. They were slapped multiple times."
On the video call, Foyaz Ullah showed the scars on his right wrist, and described repeatedly being punched and slapped on his back and face, and poked with a bamboo rod.
"They asked me why I was in India illegally, why are you here?"
The Rohingya are a predominantly Muslim ethnic community but of the 40 people forcibly returned in May, 15 are Christian.
Those detaining them on their journey from Delhi would even say, "'why didn't you become Hindu?
Myanmar military junta and the rebels have similar mindsets identifying the Rohingyas as “Bengali Muslims” who have been blamed for illegally migrating from neighboring Bangladesh since a century ago.
The draconian Citizenship Law of 1982 requires individuals to prove that their ancestors lived in Myanmar before 1823, refuse to recognize Rohingya Muslims as one of the nation’s ethnic groups and delist their language as a national language.
Bangladesh has earlier raised the refugee crisis at several international platforms including the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the Commonwealth, the United Nations, and other global summits.
"We held on to the rope and swam more than 100m to get to the shore," he said, adding that they were told that they had reached Indonesia.
Then the people who'd taken them there left.
The BBC put these allegations to the Indian government and the Indian Navy, and have not received a response.
In the early hours of 9 May, the group was found by local fishermen who told them they were in Myanmar.
This is also a legal obligation under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which India is a party.
We urge the Government of India to uphold its legal obligations under international law and halt all deportations of Rohingya refugees at once.