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 '''Assam Detention Camp''' are a group of [[Immigration detention|immigration detention centers]] for [[illegal immigrant]]s located in [[Assam]].<ref name="NDTV Assam 12 Sept">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/assam-detention-centre-inside-indias-1st-detention-centre-for-illegal-immigrants-after-nrc-school-ho-2099626|title=India's 1st Illegal Immigrant Detention Camp Size Of 7 Football Fields|last=Choudhury|first=Ratnadip|date=12 September 2019|website=NDTV|others=(with inputs from Reuters)|access-date=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/final-nrc-status-detention-centre-comping-up-in-goalpara-for-those-left-out-of-assam-nrc/story-a23cgA78r8OUYEzbbUfssI.html|title=Final NRC status: 15 buildings, schools, hospital in India’s first detention centre for those not in Assam NRC|date=2019-09-14|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/assam-nrc-detention-camps-for-illegal-migrants-bangladeshi-1596968-2019-09-08|title=Assam NRC: Workers at India's first detention camp for illegal migrants may end up there|date=8 September 2019|website=India Today|access-date=2019-09-14}}</ref> The first detention centre in the state had come up in 2008 under orders of the [[Gauhati High Court]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nrc-story-how-assam-got-detention-centres-for-foreigners-1631835-2019-12-27|title=NRC and story of how Assam got detention centres for foreigners|last=Dutta|first=Prabhash K.|date=27 December 2019|website=India Today|access-date=2019-12-27}}</ref> Currently six immigration detention centres have been set up in Assam, all inside jails, in various districts of the state.<ref name=":2" />
-A total of ten centres are planned to be built in Assam.<ref name="NDTV Assam 12 Sept" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/17/20861427/india-assam-citizenship-muslim-detention-camps|title=India’s massive, scary new detention camps, explained|last=Samuel|first=Sigal|date=September 17, 2019|website=Vox}}</ref> There are many in-construction or proposed detention centres to be constructed following the exclusion of people from the final [[National Register of Citizens of India]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/938-persons-detained-in-6-detention-centres-in-assam-823-declared-as-foreigners-centre-tells-supreme-court/articleshow/68062067.cms|title=938 persons detained in 6 detention centres in Assam, 823 declared as foreigners: Centre to SC|date=2019-02-19|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2019-09-14|others=PTI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/assam-seeks-10-more-detention-centres-to-hold-illegal-foreigners/story-fHtbCWAQQRWR0op8XM7QuM.html|title=Assam seeks 10 more detention centres to hold ‘illegal foreigners’|date=2019-06-15|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-09-14}}</ref> In 2014, the Centre had told all the states to set up at least one detention centre for illegal immigrants so as not to mix them up with jail inmates. According to a ruling by the Supreme Court, illegal immigrants can be held for three years at such facilities, after which they are eligible for bail.<ref name=":1" />
+A total of ten centres are planned to be built in Assam.<ref name="NDTV Assam 12 Sept" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/17/20861427/india-assam-citizenship-muslim-detention-camps|title=India’s massive, scary new detention camps, explained|last=Samuel|first=Sigal|date=September 17, 2019|website=Vox}}</ref> There are many in-construction or proposed detention centres to be constructed following the exclusion of people from the final [[National Register of Citizens of India]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/938-persons-detained-in-6-detention-centres-in-assam-823-declared-as-foreigners-centre-tells-supreme-court/articleshow/68062067.cms|title=938 persons detained in 6 detention centres in Assam, 823 declared as foreigners: Centre to SC|date=2019-02-19|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2019-09-14|others=PTI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/assam-seeks-10-more-detention-centres-to-hold-illegal-foreigners/story-fHtbCWAQQRWR0op8XM7QuM.html|title=Assam seeks 10 more detention centres to hold ‘illegal foreigners’|date=2019-06-15|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-09-14}}</ref> In 2014, the centre had told all the states to set up at least one detention centre for illegal immigrants so as not to mix them up with jail inmates. According to a ruling by the Supreme Court, illegal immigrants can be held for three years at such facilities, after which they are eligible for bail.<ref name=":1" />
 The detention centers are commissioned as a place to house erstwhile residents who were excluded in NRC and finally declared illegal immigrants by the foreign tribunals of Assam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/assam-detention-centre-inside-indias-1st-detention-centre-for-illegal-immigrants-after-nrc-school-ho-2099626|title=India's 1st Illegal Immigrant Detention Camp Size Of 7 Football Fields|last=Choudhury|first=Ratnadip|date=12 September 2019|editor-last=Varma|editor-first=Shylaja|website=NDTV|others=Reuters|access-date=27 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/india-building-mass-detention-center-illegal-immigrants-assam-citizenship-2019-9|title=India is building a mass detention center for illegal immigrants, less than a month after it effectively stripped 1.9 million people of their citizenship|last=Perper|first=Rosie|date=12 September 2019|website=Business Insider|access-date=27 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/north-east-india/assam-gets-central-nod-for-new-detention-camp-for-declared-foreigners-5274530/|title=Assam gets central nod for new detention camp for ‘declared foreigners’|date=July 25, 2018|website=Indian Express}}</ref> More than 19 lakh people have not been included into the list of citizens created to identify the illegal immigrants in Assam. These people need to prove their citizenship failing which they may be moved to these centres.<ref name="NDTV Assam 12 Sept" />
 == History ==
-The first detention centre in Assam had come up in 2008 under orders of the [[Gauhati High Court]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-illegal-immigrants-not-identified-deported-tarun-gogoi-questions-centre/articleshow/72995769.cms|title=PM Modi lying about detention camps, sanctioned Rs 46 crore for one in Assam in 2018: Tarun Gogoi|date=27 December 2019|website=The Times of India|access-date=2019-12-28}}</ref> They were first intended as a location for "short-term detention of undocumented immigrants, refugees and people awaiting trial before a Foreigner’s Tribunals".<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/rights/detention-centres-assam-nrc|title=Detention Centres in Assam Are Synonymous With Endless Captivity|last=Laskar|first=Tahmina|date=7 February 2019|website=The Wire|access-date=27 December 2019}}</ref> But now they are "synonymous with endless captivity."<ref name=":3" /> In 2011 the [[Government of Assam|Assam government]], when Congress was in power both at the Centre and in the state, had set up three detention camps{{Efn|Goalpara, Kokrajhar and Silchar|name=|group=}} with hundreds of illegal immigrants.<ref name=":4" /> In 2018, Rs 46 crore was sanctioned for a detention camp by the Narendra Modi government.<ref name=":5" />
+The first detention centre in Assam had come up in 2008 under orders of the [[Gauhati High Court]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-illegal-immigrants-not-identified-deported-tarun-gogoi-questions-centre/articleshow/72995769.cms|title=PM Modi lying about detention camps, sanctioned Rs 46 crore for one in Assam in 2018: Tarun Gogoi|date=27 December 2019|website=The Times of India|access-date=2019-12-28}}</ref> They were first intended as a location for "short-term detention of undocumented immigrants, refugees and people awaiting trial before a Foreigner’s Tribunals".<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/rights/detention-centres-assam-nrc|title=Detention Centres in Assam Are Synonymous With Endless Captivity|last=Laskar|first=Tahmina|date=7 February 2019|website=The Wire|access-date=27 December 2019}}</ref> But now they are "synonymous with endless captivity."<ref name=":3" /> In 2011 the [[Government of Assam|Assam government]], when Congress was in power both at the centre and in the state, had set up three detention camps{{Efn|Goalpara, Kokrajhar and Silchar|name=|group=}} with hundreds of illegal immigrants.<ref name=":4" /> In 2018, Rs 46 crore was sanctioned for a detention camp by the Narendra Modi government.<ref name=":5" />
 ==Detainees==