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  US courts halt deportation of Indian-origin man wrongfully jailed for 43 years

  World | November 04, 2025 10:58 IST

  Two US courts have stopped the deportation of Subramanyam Vedam, a 64-year-old Indian-origin man who spent over 40 years in prison for a murder conviction that was recently overturned.

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  Supreme Court slams Assam government for not deporting persons declared as foreigners

  India | February 04, 2025 14:02 IST

  The court dismissed Assam’s claim that deportation was impossible due to undisclosed foreign addresses and directed the government to begin deportation of 63 detainees within two weeks.

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  Russian forces kill ISIS-linked hostage takers at detention centre, rescue staff

  World | June 16, 2024 16:26 IST

  Some of the hostage-takers were convicted of terrorism charges and were allegedly linked to ISIS, which took responsibility for the Moscow concert hall attack that killed 145 people in March. They wanted to negotiate their free passage out of the prison, but were eliminated by the Russian forces.

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  US slams China on human rights violations in Xinjiang; vows to hold Beijing accountable

  World | September 02, 2022 23:04 IST

  The report said China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity.

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  Indian-origin journalist wins Pulitzer for exposing China's Muslim detention camps

  World | June 12, 2021 11:32 IST

  Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has won the US' top journalism award, the Pulitzer Prize.

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  Assam NRC: Children of Indian citizens not to go to detention centres, govt tells SC

  India | January 06, 2020 17:58 IST

  The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that children, whose parents have been given citizenship through NRC, will not be separated from their families and sent to the detention centres in Assam.

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  Artist sketches heart-wrenching life in a detention centre. See pics

  World | January 02, 2020 19:40 IST

  A guard withholds water from a barefoot migrant kneeling in front of him. An emaciated man lies on the ground while a thermostat reads a broiling 43 degrees Celsius. Refugees cower to the ground as bullets whiz by.

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  Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work

  World | November 25, 2019 23:41 IST

  ​The watch towers, double-locked doors and video surveillance in the Chinese camps are there “to prevent escapes.” Uighurs and other minorities held inside are scored on how well they speak the dominant Mandarin language and follow strict rules on everything down to bathing and using the toilet, scores that determine if they can leave.

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  938 detained, 823 of them declared foreigners: Centre tells SC on details of functional detention centres in Assam

  India | February 19, 2019 14:53 IST

  More than 27,000 foreigners have been pushed back at border points while attempting to enter India illegally, the Centre said.

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  SC seeks information on detention centres, foreigners detained there in Assam

  India | January 28, 2019 12:36 IST

  The bench, which has sought details within three weeks form the authority, has now posted the matter for further hearing on February 19.

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  Framing guidelines to keep foreigners in detention centres: Centre tells SC

  India | September 20, 2018 23:02 IST

  Additional Solicitor General (ASG) A N S Nadkarni, appearing for the Centre, told the bench that the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued circulars to all the states laying down the guidelines with respect to the detention centres.

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  Indian Embassy establishes contact, nearly 100 Indians held at 2 detention centres in US

  India | June 22, 2018 13:25 IST

  According to officials, around 40-45 Indians are at a federal detention centre in the Southern American State of New Mexico while 52 Indians, mostly Sikhs and Christians, are held in Oregon.

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  Pak court denounces running of detention centres by ISI

  World | June 29, 2013 18:01 IST

  Islamabad, June 29: A court in Pakistan has strongly denounced the running of illegal detention centres by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and other intelligence and law-enforcing agencies of the country.While hearing cases of 280 missing