{"id":72509,"date":"2025-06-19T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jun\/19\/india-deporting-indians-muslim-citizens-bangladesh-say-rights-groups-border"},"modified":"2025-06-19T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:00:51","slug":"india-illegally-deporting-muslim-citizens-at-gunpoint-to-bangladesh-say-rights-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72509","title":{"rendered":"India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are fears the crackdown against \u2018outsiders\u2019 is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are returned by Bangladesh border guards<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has been accused of illegally deporting Indian Muslims to Bangladesh, prompting fears of an escalating campaign of persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people, largely Muslims suspected of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, have been rounded up by police across India in recent weeks, according to human rights groups, with many of them deprived of due legal process and sent over the border to neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jun\/19\/india-deporting-indians-muslim-citizens-bangladesh-say-rights-groups-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are fears the crackdown against \u2018outsiders\u2019 is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are returned by Bangladesh border guardsThe Indian government has been accused of illegally deporting Indian Muslims to Bangladesh, prompting fears &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,59,53,62,447,491,362,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-islam","category-migration","category-race","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72510,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72509\/revisions\/72510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}