Holding ‘irregular foreigners’ in detention centres across prisons, often indefinitely, is not uncommon in Assam, human rights organisation Amnesty says.

As of data on 25 September, more than a 1,000 people were held in detention centres across the state, a documentary released by Amnesty India on Friday, 23 November, says.

The documentary – Between Fear and Hatred: Surviving Migration Detention in Assam – claims that many of those detained in such centres did not know what their crime was and why they had been separated from their families.

The release comes months after Assam had published its final draft of the National Registry of Citizens (NRC) on June 30, which had excluded the names of 40 lakh applicants.