India builds first mass detention centre for ‘illegal immigrants’

Nearly two million people – many of them Muslim – were left off the National Register of Citizens, published last month.

The Indian government is building the first mass detention centre for people in the northeastern state of Assam who are deemed to be “illegal immigrants”.

Nearly two million people – many of them Muslim – were left off the government’s National Register of Citizens (NRC), published last month.

Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports.