Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Southeast Asia Correspondent at The Guardian
South Asia correspondent for @Guardian. Thankfully I don't have opinions. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Hannah Ellis-Petersen |Azizur Rahman
The Indian government has been accused of illegally deporting Indian Muslims to Bangladesh, prompting fears of an escalating campaign of persecution. Thousands of people, largely Muslims suspected of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, have been rounded up by police across India in recent weeks, according to human rights groups, with many of them deprived of due legal process and sent over the border to neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Hannah Ellis-Petersen
In the ramshackle, cramped lanes of Ambika Nagar in the Indian city of Gujarat, everyone spoke of Pooja and Harshit Patel with pride. The couple had done what none of their relatives or neighbours had managed to achieve before; they had moved abroad, settling among the thriving Gujarati diaspora community in the British city of Leicester.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Hannah Ellis-Petersen
“Mayday, mayday,” was the final radio message sent by the pilot of the Air India 171 flight bound for London, moments before it crashed to the ground, killing more than 270 people. In a briefing by India’s aviation authorities on Saturday, authorities confirmed that Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who was piloting the flight, sent a distress call to air traffic control less a minute after it took off from Ahmedabad airport at 1:39pm on Thursday.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Hannah Ellis-Petersen
As he dropped off his only daughter at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday morning, Suraj Mistry seized the opportunity to take one final family selfie before she went back to London. Kinal Mistry, 24, had laughed lovingly at her father as he made her firmly promise that they would meet again soon. “Yes, Daddy, very soon,” she said. Instead, the photo – of Kinal smiling beside her mother and father – would commemorate the last time his family was a whole.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Daniel Lavelle |Rebecca Ratcliffe |Jonathan Yerushalmy |Léonie Chao-Fong |Tom Ambrose |Amy Sedghi | +7 more
Narendra Modi visits crash site where hundreds died in Ahmedabad and meets Briton who was sole survivor
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