DM Monitoring
NEW DELHI: Dozens of Rohingya refugees have been detained while they were camping outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the Indian capital, New Delhi – the second such move in a week.
“A total of 88 people have been detained,” an officer at Vikaspuri police station in the capital’s southwest said on Thursday. Police official Vikas, who only gave his first name, said 17 of those detained were pregnant women and children, who underwent medical tests at a UNHCR facility in Vikaspuri.
He said the remaining 71 Rohingya were taken to a shelter in the capital’s Inderlok area.
Rohingya community leaders said the refugees had come to New Delhi on Wednesday from Jammu district in Indian-administered Kashmir, where more than 160 Rohingya were detained last week and taken to a “holding centre” in Kathua district, 59km (36 miles) away. Officials in Jammu said the detained Rohingya will be deported to their homeland, Myanmar.
