The government is unable to deport them to Myanmar and unwilling to allow them to stay, thus condemning Rohingya refugees to endless and arbitrary detention. An investigation

Jammu: I met Abu Alam in Jammu on a Friday afternoon in August this year. A Rohingya Muslim from Maungdaw Township in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Alam fled the country in 2010 – two years before sectarian attacks on the minority community by radical Buddhist groups led to a flood of Rohingyas seeking refuge across South and Southeast Asia.

He made his way to Jammu but was arrested for entering India illegally and without a passport. He was jailed along with two other Rohingyas, Mohammad Salim (20) and Mohammad Farooq (19).

Alam says he is now 20-years old, which means he would have been 15 at the time of his arrest.

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(This story won the Mumbai Press Club’s Red Ink Award for Human Rights reporting in 2016.)

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