PUCL Statement on Handcuffed Deportation of Indians from USA

22nd February, 2025

PUCL Condemns Handcuffed Deportation of Indians from USA

& demands that

The Indian Government must

• Apologise to the migrants for the complicity of the Indian government in this inhumane treatment; and

• Compensate the migrants for their physical and mental suffering.

• Must make public the terms of the 2012 protocol with the U.S. regarding deportation procedures; and initiate its revision if it is not in conformity with international human rights law as well as Indian Constitutional law.

The US Government must compensate the migrants who have suffered humiliation and trauma through the dehumanizing experience they have been put through at the hands of US Law enforcement.

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PUCL strongly condemns the actions of the U.S. government subjecting Indian deportees to inhuman and degrading treatment by handcuffing and shackling them while transporting Indians back to India, thereby violating international human rights standards.

PUCL also condemns the abject failure and inaction by the Indian government to demand that the US government stop use of handcuffs and shackles and comply with international human rights standards as spelt out by the Convention against Torture (CAT), ICCPR, UDHR and Indian SC rulings.

On the night of February 16, 2025, a total of 112 Indians were sent on the third U.S. C17 military aircraft from the United States, which landed at Amritsar