Ten centres ‘planned’ across northeastern state after national register published
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The Indian government is building mass detention camps after almost two million people
were told they could be effectively stripped of citizenship.
Around 1.9m people in the north-eastern state of Assam were excluded when India published the state’s final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list in August.
Those excluded from the register will have to appeal to prove they are citizens. The UN and other international rights groups have expressed concern that many could be rendered stateless.
The citizenship list is part of a drive to detect illegal immigrants in Assam.
The Indian government claims that the migrants have arrived from neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Critics say that the register has upended the lives of Muslims who have lived legally in the [...]
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