UN rights body assails India for seeking deportation of Rohingya

UN rights body slams India's plan to deport 40,000 Rohingya

Displaced Rohingya refugees from Rakhine state in Myanmar carry their belongings as they flee violence, near UImage Credit: AFP
Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, left, and Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for HImage Credit: File
Rohingya refugees walk on the muddy road after travelling over the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, BanglaImage Credit: REUTERS
Rohingya refugees reaching for food aid at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya near the Bangladesh-Myanmar bordeImage Credit: AFP
Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugees reach for food distributed by Bangladeshi volunteers near Cox&Image Credit: AP
A Rohingya woman breaks down after a fight erupted during food distribution by local volunteers at Kutupalong,Image Credit: PTI

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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has assailed the Indian government over its threat to deport 40,000 Rohingya.

, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, also cited "cow vigilantism" and the murder of outspoken journalist Gauri Lankesh as part of the "darker and more dangerous" updates on human rights issues in 40 countries.

The UN body earlier assailed India for rising communalism, caste violence and attacks on Africans.

Al Hussain on Monday said in Geneva: "I deplore current measures in India to deport Rohingyas at a time of such violence against them in their country.

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