A 68-year-old Muslim woman from Assam, detained by the police in May, has been found in Dhaka, Bangladesh, her family told Scroll on Friday.

A BBC Bangla crew spotted Sakina Begum in Mirpur, a crowded residential locality in Dhaka, and contacted her family.

Begum, a resident of Sonpur village in Nalbari district, was among the hundreds taken into police custody in May amid a crackdown on declared foreigners.

Typically long-term residents with families and properties in Assam, declared foreigners are those who have failed to prove that they are Indian citizens before the state’s foreigners tribunals.

Many declared foreigners detained in May were taken to the border with Bangladesh and forced to cross over, often at gunpoint. Their families discovered they were in Bangladesh when video

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