A report on Foreigners in Indian Prisons - Stangers to Justice

Strangers to Justice is an outcome of CHRI’s experience of working on issues of detention and repatriation of foreign nationals in Indian prisons for nearly ten years. CHRI took up the issue of foreign nationals in 2009, starting with Bangladeshi nationals lodged in prisons across West Bengal and working with partner organisations in Bangladesh. Simultaneously, it also began to facilitate the repatriation of Indians in Bangladeshi prisons back to the country. In due course, it started providing assistance to prisoners of other nationalities as well. As more cases were received, hitherto unknown issues began to come to our attention. Over the years, we have visited and interacted with a large number of foreign nationals confined in the prisons of West Bengal, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Assam.