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Chin asylum seeker detained in India
A Chin asylum seeker Than Mang was arrested and detained in Tihar Jail in New Delhi by the Indian police when he went on a hunger strike in front of the UNHCR office.
Khonumthung News: 9 December, 2006
A Chin asylum seeker Than Mang was arrested and detained in Tihar Jail in New Delhi by the Indian police when he went on a hunger strike in front of the UNHCR office.
Tang Mang, who is being detained in Tihar Jail as of December 5 under section 14 of the Foreigners Act, has been on a hunger strike for five days even though police forced fed him.
“Because he refused to eat, he was beaten up and we are very concerned about his health and security,” Pa Ceu, president of Chin Refugee Committee (CRC) in Delhi who visited the detainee in jail, told Khonumthung News.
Tang Mang started his solo hunger strike on November 27 appealing to officials of the United Nations High commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) to reopen his rejected file.
He was arrested by the Lodhi police after UNHCR officials requested them take action against him on December 4, according to a CRC bulletin issued on November 2006.
Lodhi police took Tang Mang to the Burmese Embassy in New Delhi but the embassy refused to take up the case. He was locked up in Lodhi police station and produce in Patiala House Court at 2 p.m. on December 5.
The President of the CRC also said that he has to serve a jail term of six months in accordance with the Foreigners Act. And then he will face deportation to Burma.
Tang Mang arrived in New Delhi in 2003 and applied for refugee status with the UNHCR but his case was rejected.