Lower thirds:

00:03 Report / Shalu Yadav & Richard Kujur
00:24 Mohammad Ismail, Rohingya refugee
01:35 Shalu Yadav / DW Correspondent / Delhi
02:14 Priyali Sur / Founder, The Azadi project
02:52 Priyali Sur / Founder, The Azadi project
03:30 Mohammad Ismail, Rohingya refugee

Script:

(00.00-00.20) VO - Mohammad Ismail fled genocide in his home country Myanmar with his family eight years ago. They found refuge here in Delhi, but now he’s living a nightmare. …Last month, his sister and daughter were told to go to the police station for some paperwork. For several days he heard nothing.

(00.21-00.51) CLIP Mohammad Ismail, Rohingya refugee
‘I got a call and I heard my sister’s voice and I was relieved to know they were alive. She was calling from a fisherman’s phone. She told me that they had been taken on a plane and then on a ship where they were blindfolded and handcuffed. After a few hours on the ship, the Indian navy gave them life jackets and told them to swim ashore.’

(00.52-01.31) VO - They were among dozens of Rohingya refugees first held by authorities, then flown across the country to the coast. 

VO - It was here, near the coast of Tanintharyi (ta-nin-thah-ree) island region in southern Myanmar, that his sister Anuwara Begum and daughter Asma Akhtar, were thrown off the naval ship. One man who also called his family on the fisherman’s phone, said at least one of the group was beaten up on the ship. 

(00.52-1.32) VO - People living in camps like this in Delhi are increasingly nervous. Activists told DW that as well as those thrown into the sea last month, the Indian government forced over a hundred Rohingya refugees across the land border into Bangladesh. 

(1.34-1.59)PTC - Refugee camps should be safe spaces for persecuted people, but this camp is not. The Rohingya refugees here live in constant fear that they could be next on the deportation list. They’re scared to even speak to us, worried that talking to international media could result in  reprisals by the Indian government - who doesnt recognise them as refugees… They’re officially labelled as illegal foreigners here. 
Shots of activist Priyali Sur interacting with refugees (her own content, filmed by her team)

(2.00-2.13) VO - Priyali Sur is an activist for refugees in India.  She says the country does not have a law protecting refugees, but that such deportations were against international law.  She spoke to us from Washington.

(2.14-2.41) CLIP Priyali Sur, Founder, The Azadi project: 
‘You cannot deport refugees without following protocol. There was no protocol followed. 5.00 - without any permissions, without informing UNHCR, without talking to the supreme court.. No humanitarian measures were taken in this deportation.And it is completely illegal, completely an aberration of all kinds of international order and in violation of non-refoulement. 

(2.43-2.48) VO - She says the Rohingyas’ religion makes them political targets for Hindu nationalists. 

(2.50-3.10) CLIP Priyali Sur, Founder, The Azadi project: 
The fact that the Rohingya refugees are Muslims, yes, it has put them at a higher risk. The political narrative plays into the fact that, you know, the Islamophobia. It plays into the, you know, the fearful, fearmongering narrative around that their identities and their religious identities are Islamic. 

(3.11-3.28) VO - The Indian government hasn't confirmed or denied the reports of this deportation, and did not respond to DW request for an interview on the matter. 

VO - Mohammad Ismail says it feels unfair that India has forced his sister and daughter back to an unsafe homeland. 

(3.29-3.43) CLIP Mohammad Ismail, Rohingya refugee
‘I want to appeal to the Indian government to return my family members to me. We are each other’s support system. I brought them to India with me for refuge. Please don’t torture me so much. I am a poor man.’

(3.44-3.48) VO - He’s still waiting - and hoping - to hear from his loved ones.