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When Suspicion Becomes Deportation: The case of Sahida Fakir and the dangerous criminalisation of Bengali identity
A woman who left home to buy dinner was detained, taken across state lines and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh despite her family producing a birth certificate, voter ID, school records and land documents
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