After Omar, Farooq advocates humanitarian approach for Rohingya Refugees

NEWS VIBES OF INDIA
NVI Correspondent
December 10, 2024

File photo: National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah

 

Srinagar, Dec 10(NVI): National Conference President Farooq Abdullah today reignited debate on the plight of Rohingya refugees in Jammu and Kashmir, advocating a humanitarian approach to their treatment.

70-year-old detained Rohingya woman dies in custody in IIOJK

Kasmir Media Service

June 9, 2021

Jammu, June 09 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a 70-year-old Rohingya woman detained in Hiranagar jail in Jammu passed away at a hospital, authorities said.

The deceased woman has been identified as Noor Aisha who was in jail since early March. A police official said, Aisha was a patient of Asthma. As of now the body is in hospital in the custody of jail authorities, he said. “I don’t know about the plans of last rites and how the body will be disposed of.”

Concern as 24% of Rohingya Inmates in Jammu Detention Centre Test COVID Positive

THE WIRE

Umer Maqbool
26/MAY/2021

A Rohingya Muslim man prepares to walk through a full-body sanitization tunnel installed at COVID-19 dedicated Government Medical College hospital, in Jammu, Sunday, April 19, 2020. Photo: PTI

Srinagar: Nearly 24% of the inmates of Jammu and Kashmir’s detention centre for Rohingya people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past three days, triggering concerns about a serious outbreak at the centre.

Over 200 Rohingya are being detained at the holding centre at Hira Nagar of Jammu’s Kathua district since March 6 this year. “Fifty three Rohingya refugees have tested positive for COVID-19 here out of 218 samples collected,” Kathua’s chief medical officer, Dr Ashok Choudhary told The Wire.

53 Rohingya test positive at Kathua jail facility

THE INDIAN EXPRESS

Arun Sharma
Jammu
May 27, 2021

Pointing out that they were found Covid-positive during a three-day special test drive at the centre, Kathua Chief Medical Officer Dr Ashok Choudhary said all of them are asymptomatic.

There are nearly 220 Rohingya, detained from Jammu following a verification drive, at the holding centre -- the J&K administration had set up the centres under the Foreigners Act in March.

Fifty-three Rohingya detained at a “holding centre” in a sub-jail in Kathua’s Hiranagar town have tested positive for Covid, officials said. They have been isolated from other inmates and health officials are keeping a watch on their condition.

Pointing out that they were found Covid-positive during a three-day special test drive at the centre, Kathua Chief Medical Officer Dr Ashok Choudhary said all of them are asymptomatic. “We have isolated them and provided them with corona kits…our doctors are visiting the holding centre daily and keeping a watch on their condition.”

53 Rohingyas test positive for Covid-19 at holding centre in J&K's Kathua

INDIA TODAY

Sunil Bhat

Jammu

May 28, 2021

The 53, out of over 200 Rohingyas at the Hiranagar Sub-Jail in Kathua district, have been quarantined. All of them are reportedly asymptomatic and are under the supervision of prison doctors.

All the remaining inmates would be tested on Thursday and Friday to stop the virus from spreading further. (PTI file image of Rohingya refugees in Jammu)

As many as 53 Rohingya were found Covid-19 positive at the Hiranagar Sub-Jail in Jammu's Kathua district during a three-day testing drive, officials informed on Wednesday.

All those who have tested positive are asymptomatic and have been isolated by the authorities. "A total of 53 Rohingyas were found positive during screening since Monday and all of them are asymptomatic. We are keeping a watch on their condition," PTI quoted Chief Medical Officer, Kathua, Ashok Chaudhary as saying.

Bail denied to two Rohingyas booked for preparing fake documents

DAILY EXCELSOIR

23/05/2021

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 22: Additional Sessions Judge Jammu Kishore Kumar today rejected the bail applications of two Rohingyas, who prepared fake documents of Indian citizenship.

As per the police case, Police Station Bahu Fort came to know from reliable sources that Ashiqur Rahman and Abdul Ghafoor, the residents of Myanmar and presently residing at Bathindi Rahim Nagar, have fraudulently prepared some documents–Passport , Aadhar Card , PAN Card etc by impersonating themselves to be the citizens of country .

A Rohingya Girl Stuck Between Three Countries

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Rajeev Bhattacharya
April 15, 2021

The 14-year-old was about to be deported to Myanmar from India when authorities refused to admit her back. Meanwhile, she wants to be reunited with her parents in Bangladesh.

On April 1, Indian authorities were greeted with a surprise when their request to deport a Rohingya girl was turned down by Myanmar.

Immigration officials in Myanmar refused to accept the 14-year-old girl on the ground that the border gate between the two countries had been shut for the last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the situation in their country was not suitable for the proceedings to take place.

Centre assures SC that Rohingya Muslims will not be deported

The Telegraph

Our Legal Correspondent 

New Delhi 

27.03.21

Solicitor-general Mehta, however, said that all illegal migrants in the country could not be granted refugee status and India could not become the world capital for refugees

The Centre on Friday assured the Supreme Court that Rohingya Muslims would not be deported unless the Myanmar government identifies and agrees to take them back.

The assurance was given to a bench headed by Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde by solicitor-general Tushar Mehta during the course of a hearing. The court was dealing with the plea of Mohd Samiullah, a Rohingya Muslim, seeking a stay on the deportation of Rohingya refugees from Jammu and Kashmir.

SC reserves verdict on plea for immediate release of Rohingya refugees in Jammu

KASMIR IMAGES
March 27, 2021

Country can't be capital for illegal immigrants, Centre tells court

New Delhi: The country cannot be the “capital” for illegal immigrants, the Centre told the Supreme Court which on Friday reserved order on a fresh plea seeking directions for immediate release of detained Rohingya refugees in Jammu and restrain the government from implementing any order deporting them to Myanmar.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde refused to hear at this stage the intervention application filed by United Nations special rapporteur in the matter.

“We will not hear you today. There is serious objection to it,” the bench told the counsel appearing for the UN special rapporteur.

“We are closing it for order,” said the bench, which also comprised Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, after hearing submissions on the fresh plea.

Plea in SC to restrain central govt from deporting Rohingyas detained in Jammu

Samanwaya Rautray
ET BureauLast Updated: Mar 12, 2021

The plea in the top court also sought a court order to have those detained released from the detention centre.

A Rohingya refugee filed a fresh plea in the Supreme Court, urging the top court to restrain the government from deporting hundreds of Rohingyas detained recently in Jammu. 

The Rohingyas, Muslims from Myanmar, have fled a targeted cleansing by the majority Buddhists in that country.

The fresh application, filed by Mohammad Salimullah through advocate Prashant Bhushan, sought to pre-empt any adverse action against the community by the Indian state which has argued that they are a national security threat.

Police recently rounded up 150-170 Rohingyas settled in Jammu, creating panic among the community. Some of them have since been housed in a detention centre.

Separated from families, uncertainty looms over deportation in Rohingya settlements

Hindustan Times

Ravi Krishnan Khajuria, 

Jammu
UPDATED ON MAR 09, 2021 

Over the weekend, police rounded up the 169 people from the city and took them to the Hiranagar jail detention centre

Rohingyas at Kiryani Talab in Jammu on Monday (HT Photo)

The family members of the 169 Rohingya community members who were taken to a detention centre at a prison in Jammu have now been confined to their settlement clusters in the city’s Kathua district, where many described a sense of dread since the detentions and repeated appeals to the government of India not to deport them to Myanmar.

Panic grips displaced Rohingyas in Jammu

THE HINDU

Peerzada Ashiq
JAMMU, MARCH 07, 2021

SecSecurity personnel stand guard outside the central jail in Srinagar. File | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD

150 immigrants rounded up during “verification drive”

Panic gripped the displaced Rohingya population in Jammu on Sunday, a day after the J&K administration rounded up over 150 immigrants as part of “a verification process”.

“We will go one day. It’s just that the situation in Myanmar is not safe for us. The police are summoning our people [in Jammu]. Thirteen men who were asked to visit the police stations on Saturday have not returned,” Salamtullah, a Rohingya Muslim who escaped the genocide in Myanmar between 2016-17, said.

Jammu နဲ့ Kashmir မှာ ဖမ်းမိတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ (၁၅၀)ကျော် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဘက် ပြန်ပို့မည်

VOA
VOA (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
08 မတ်၊ 2021

အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံတွင်းမှာ ဖမ်းမိသည့် တရားမဝင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ ( ပုံဟောင်း - ၂၀၁၉ )

အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံမြောက်ပိုင်း Jammu နဲ့ Kashmir ဒေသမှာ ဖမ်းမိခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် (၁၅၀)ကျော်ကို မြန်မာ နိုင်ငံဘက် ပြန်ပို့ဖို့ စီစဉ်နေတယ်လို့ တာဝန်ရှိသူတွေက တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့မှ ပြောပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ျပည္ႏွင္ဒဏ္ေပးဖို႔ ဂ်မူးပါတီ ေတာင္းဆိုဆႏၵ ၿပ

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA ) 
 2020-01-05

 
■ အိႏၵိယနိုင္ငံေတာင္ပိုင္း ဂ်မူးၿမိဳ႕မွာ ေဒသခံ NPP ပါတီက ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ျမန္မာျပည္က ထြက္ေျပးလာတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ အပါအဝင္ တရားမဝင္ လာေရာက္ေနထိုင္သူေတြကို ျပည္ႏွင္ဒဏ္ေပးဖို႔ မေန႔က ဆႏၵၿပ ေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

Next move on deportation of Rohingya refugees: Union minister Jitendra Singh

INDIA TODAY

Press Trust of India

Jammu

January 4, 2020

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said the government's next move would be regarding the deportation of Rohingya refugees as they will not be able to secure citizenship under the new law.

 

Union minister Jitendra Singh

 

Asserting that the Citizenship (Amendment) act (CAA) was implemented in Jammu and Kashmir the day it was passed by Parliament, Union minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said the government's next move would be regarding the deportation of Rohingya refugees as they will not be able to secure citizenship under the new law.

FEATURED Rohingya Muslims Big Threat To Indian Defense Installations In Jammu & Kashmir

The Our Asian Times
December 20, 2019
EurAsian Times

 Thousands of illegal Rohingya Muslims have occupied areas in proximity to the vital defence installations in Jammu and Kashmir including Sunjwan Army camp in Jammu. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 Rohingya Muslims are residing in different parts of Jammu district.

According to a J&K Home department “a total number of 6523 Rohingya Muslims were found living across 39 different places across five districts of Jammu and Kashmir”. According to this report, “6461 Rohingyas were staying in Jammu division and 62 in Kashmir division.

‘Shiv Sena will outset Rohingyas’

State Times  
STATE TIMES NEWS

March 31, 2019

 
SAMBA: Shiv Sena who is participating first time in any kind of elections in J&K started their election campaign under the leadership of State President Dimpy Kohli from Samba after taking the blessing of Chichi Mata. 

Forced to flee again: Labelled ‘illegal migrants’ in India, Rohingya seek refuge in Bangladesh camps

THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Nathan VanderKlippe Asia correspondent
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Published March 14, 2019

Mohammad Salim was working past midnight, installing water pipe, when he received a phone call. “There is a fire at the shelters,” the caller told him.

Flames had engulfed Jamaat Ali Camp, the collection of wood-and-cardboard homes where his family lived in Jammu, in the far northwest of India.

A room of one’s own: Why Rohingya refugees keep returning to Aligarh

TwoCircles.net 

March 6, 2019

Rohingya refugees pooled together money to build this school that doubles up as a community centre where they hold their meetings ( Photo: Mohammad Zubeir) 

Meher Ali for TwoCircles.net 

Aligarh:-– Guran Miya (30), a Rohingya refugee, returned with his family to Aligarh in mid-2018, just nine months after he had left.

During this time, he lived in Bangalore and then Hyderabad. It was a struggle, especially in Hyderabad, where he lived in a refugee camp. He says that people had to get in line to use the toilet and there was also a lack of privacy, especially for his wife, when she went to take a bath.

Deportation Fears Turn Rohingya Community Leaders Into Refugee Negotiators

THE WIRE
Meher Ali,  05.03.2019
 
Seeking to reassure fellow refugees, Rohingya community leaders found themselves negotiating with the state over a data-gathering exercise last December.

Representational image. Credit: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

 

Aligarh: A good community leader, says Mohammad Zafar (24), should have three qualities: “Thanda dimagh, padhai-likhai, aur aadmi se nafrat nahi honee chahiye (He should have a cool head, be educated, and have no hatred toward anyone).”

Zafar is a Rohingya refugee and a leader, or zimmedaar, of the Rohingya community in Aligarh.