Held in Russia: Indian Tourists Detained, Deported Without Explanation

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00:00We were sitting together, we took our passports, and we started to take interviews with everyone.

00:13We took the phone and checked all the history of our google history, youtube history, photos,

00:20we took our passports, because we were able to open it. We stayed after 3 hours. After 3 hours, the result was given that you were deported.

00:32But did you have a proper tourist visa?

00:36Yes, it was a tourist visa, from the documents, from the hotel bookings, from the return size, everything we have.

00:40I don't remember the date when it happened, but it was in mid of June or last of June.

00:46So, I mean, you saw your visa physically, that everything is okay, that everything is correct.

00:52We have a physical visa now.

00:57Then, we took it from one room, all the deportees were sitting there.

01:01Almost, when we were 7-8 members, we didn't come, we were 16-17 plus.

01:06In which, 7-8 places were to sleep, the rest of the rest were to sit.

01:12And, you can't sleep, otherwise you have to sit, you have to sit, you have to sit.

01:17You have to be standing, you have to be standing, you have to do what you have to do.

01:19We are talking in English, Russian, I am not talking in English.

01:22And then, we started to scare ourselves.

01:24And, almost, I had to leave the parking lot.

01:26The parking lot was locked, the room was locked.

01:29There was no windows or ventilation.

01:31But, at that time, we also had to leave the parking lot in the morning.

01:34We will only give 2 times a day.

01:35One morning at 7am, one evening at 7am.

01:37And, between that, we will also give water.

01:3950-50, it was 500ml of the bottle.

01:41That's what it is.

01:42That's what it is.

01:45Then, in Baku, there was also an incident.

01:47He was an immigration officer in Baku.

01:49He asked us a name.

01:51And, we asked us a religion.

01:54Then, he was a Muslim.

01:55So, he talked very easily and smoothly.

01:58He talked to him and said to him,

02:00And, he said to him, he said to him.

02:02He said to him, he said to him, he said to him.

02:04And, he said to him, he said to him, he said to him.

02:06And, he said to him.

02:07And, we knew what was happening.

02:08I think the important reason is.

02:14The passport was made for Moscow.

02:19It's very problematic.

02:21People are literally doing this.

02:23They're making a tourist visa as a tourist visa.

02:27They start to work.

02:28They're doing their job.

02:30And this is happening.

02:31The people, among the group members,

02:33that say that they should work.

02:35And it's happening with people,

02:36Six people were going to work.

02:38They were going to work with a tourist visa.

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