Timeline of Events: 6 March 2021 168 Rohingya, including women, children, and elderly were detained by the Jammu and Kashmir police. The refugees were rounded up in the Maulana Azad Stadium in Jammu for biometric verification, during which some refugees were randomly chosen by the police and detained. Infants were left alone in the camps as their parents were taken by the police. Out of the 168 detainees, more than ten were above the age of 65, and some of the women were pregnant. The refugees are held to this day in Hari Nagar Jail in Jammu. 11 March 2021 72 displaced Rohingya from Jammu were detained by the Foreigner Regional Registration Office (FRRO) in Delhi's Vikaspuri while they were camping outside the UNHCR office seeking protection. 22 March 2021 Hasina Begum, a 36-year-old Rohingya woman, was taken away from Hiranagr Jail. She had been detained there since 6th March 2021, separated from her three children and husband, and lived alongside 237 other Rohingya refugees. 24 March 2021 Twelve Rohingya refugees from Delhi’s Shram Vihar and Madanpur Khadar camps were taken away by the police and sent to the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) Delhi. 31 March 2021 Another 25 Rohingya refugees were detained in Jammu. On the same day, another Rohingya family of four was detained from the Madanpur Khadar camp in Delhi and taken to the FRRO. 8 April 2021 The Supreme Court refused to grant relief in a petition challenging the detention of Rohingya refugees detained in Jammu and the move to deport them back to hostile Myanmar. Jan 2022 14 Rohingya refugees detained in Hyderabad under the foreigners’ act. The detained UNHCR card holding refugees are at risk of deportation to hostile Myanmar. 15 March 2022 Hasina Begum, a 36-year-old Rohingya woman taken away from Hiranagar Jail where she was detained since March 2021 along with 237 Rohingya refugees, separating her from her husband and her 3 children. 24 March 2022 7 Rohingya refugees travelling to UNHCR office in Delhi detained at Shiliguri of Assam. 25 March 2022 Director of Rohingya Human Rights Initiative, Sabber Kyaw Min was detained at Balapur police station of Hyderabad in Telangana state. Later he was released the same day following the pressures raised by rights bodies. 1 April 2022 12 Rohingya refugees detained in Ramban district of Jammu. They had arrived at Dar village in Gool tehsil as part of a Tablighi group, the local police said. However, R4R found that the refugee individuals have had families at Bhatindi and Narwal of Jammu for 8 years. 20 April 2022 Two more families were detained at Hira Nagar sub-jail from Batindi of Jammu. 6 May 2022 Jafar Alam, a Rohingya refugee, was deported to Myanmar. He was also separated from his family like Hasina Begum. 6 April 2023 2 years passed since the mass detention. Three refugees died in detention while two were deported. Late April 2023 The refugees decided to protest their conditions through a hunger strike. Their demands were to be freed from the detention centre to live in Jammu, or to be allowed to leave India to meet their family members settled in other countries. None of the family members of those detained has been able to meet them since the protest started, with the only exception being on the 28th of June (Eid al-Adha). The authorities said they would take 2 days to give them their decision, however, no answer was given. 17 July 2023 After 2 years of being detained arbitrarily, separated from their families, having received no answer to their requests, refugees gathered and tried to leave the detention in mass. 7:00 AM, police began firing at the crowd and throwing tear gas at the refugees. Several refugees were injured. Family members of detained refugees approached UNHCR in a state of urgency, but only received ID cards, which the detainees already had. 19 July 2023 A 5-month-old dies in the tear gas attack. The authorities chained the bereaved mother. Many more people are reported to be on their deathbeds due to extreme police brutality. Five refugees were arrested, two women and three men. They reportedly suffered custodial violence. 24th July 2023 Police along with the Anti-Terrorism Squad surrounded Rohingya camps in Mathura, Aligarh and Faridabad to arrest refugees. According to verified sources, more than 200 Rohingya refugees, including women, children, elderly, disabled persons, and pregnant women, were unlawfully detained without any registered First Information Reports (FIR).