What will the Kingdom gain from deporting them?

The Daily Star

Nay San Lwin
March 05, 2020

Rohingya refugees walk down a hillside at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar on November 27, 2017. PHOTO: AFP

If you look at the major cities around the world, from New York to London, you will find the Rohingya are there. You can be sure that wherever they are, be it in Riyadh or Vancouver, they have gone by one of three routes—seeking asylum, UN agency resettlement or entry with a counterfeit passport from a third country. And so it is, that an estimated 42,000 Rohingya are in Saudi Arabia. Worryingly, they face deportation to Bangladesh.

Supreme Court to hear plea against India deporting Rohingya Muslim refugees to Myanmar

INDIA TODAY
Press Trust of India
New Delhi
July 4, 2019

India has ratified and is a signatory to various conventions that recognise the Principle of “Non- Refoulement’, which prohibits deportation of refugees to a country where they may face threat to their lives.

"It would be listed for hearing on July 9," the bench, which also comprised Justice Deepak Gupta, said. (file photo)

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a PIL seeking identification and deportation of all illegal immigrants and infiltrators including Bangladesh nationals and Rohingyas.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta took note of submission of lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay that his plea, which was filed in 2017, be listed for an urgent hearing.

"It would be listed for hearing on July 9," the bench, which also comprised Justice Deepak Gupta, said.