India moves to deport Rohingya girl to Myanmar, UN opposes

Indian authorities took a 14-year-old Rohingya Muslim girl to a border town in northeastern India for deportation to Myanmar, according to officials. The United Nations refugee agency and rights groups have opposed the move.

A 14-year-old Rohingya Muslim girl has been taken to a border town in northeastern India for deportation to Myanmar, police officials said on Thursday, as the U.N. refugee agency and rights groups pressed New Delhi to halt the process. Tens of thousands of Rohingya, who are denied citizenship in their home country Myanmar, have lived in India for years but Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government regards them as a security threat and has started detaining them. Police have taken the girl to a border crossing in Manipur state, where paperwork was being finalised to send her back to coup-hit Myanmar. She had been sheltered for more than a year in the neighbouring Indian state of Assam, while her family lived as refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar.