rohingya
TEHRAN (defapress)- Saudi Arabia is torturing hundreds of Rohingya detainees to force them to end a hunger strike they have staged to oppose their indefinite detention or potential deportation from the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom, according to a report.
News ID: 76889 Publish Date : 2019/04/18
'Profoundly Dismayed':
TEHRAN (defapress)- Amnesty International stripped Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour over her "indifference" to the atrocities committed by the country's military against the Muslim-majority Rohingya.
News ID: 73682 Publish Date : 2018/11/13
TEHRAN (defapress) – Dozens of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh have boarded boats to try to reach Malaysia, officials and aid workers said on Thursday, raising fears of a fresh wave of such dangerous voyages after a 2015 crackdown on people smugglers.
News ID: 73582 Publish Date : 2018/11/09
Investigators working for the UN's top human rights body said Monday that top Myanmar military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 72036 Publish Date : 2018/08/27
Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees rallied in Bangladesh, calling for justice on the anniversary of Myanmar’s deadly crackdown on the persecuted ethnic minority group.
News ID: 71994 Publish Date : 2018/08/25
A UN Spokesman on Wednesday called for "effective access" for humanitarian aid organizations to enter into Myanmar's Rakhine state, where thousands of Rohingya Muslims faced persecution from security forces.
News ID: 71941 Publish Date : 2018/08/23
The United Nations warned of a lost generation of Muslim Rohingya children, with half a million in refugee camps in Bangladesh facing dangers including disease and floods and those still in Myanmar lacking access to proper education.
News ID: 71933 Publish Date : 2018/08/23
More than 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Myanmar’s state forces since August 2017, according to a new report.
News ID: 71865 Publish Date : 2018/08/19
The United Nations Security Council called on Myanmar to create the right conditions for the safe return of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees to their home country from neighboring Bangladesh.
News ID: 71374 Publish Date : 2018/07/24
Special UN Envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener has said that the return of 900,000-plus Rohingya refugees stranded in Bangladesh to Myanmar will take time.
News ID: 71369 Publish Date : 2018/07/24
Myanmar authorities made “extensive and systematic preparations” for attacks on Rohingya civilians during the weeks and months before militants attacked police in August 2017, said a Bangkok-based human rights group in a report.
News ID: 71296 Publish Date : 2018/07/20
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein announced that at least 11,432 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence and persecution in Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh so far in 2018.
News ID: 71118 Publish Date : 2018/07/07
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar on Wednesday urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute those responsible for possible war crimes and crime against humanity in Myanmar.
News ID: 70980 Publish Date : 2018/06/28
The European Union imposed sanctions on military officials in Myanmar on Monday over their role in the systematic human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state where a brutal military campaign last year forced nearly 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh.
News ID: 70949 Publish Date : 2018/06/26
Myanmar and UN agencies signed an agreement Wednesday that could lead to the return of some of the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled brutal persecution by the country's security forces and are now crowded into makeshift camps in Bangladesh.
News ID: 70552 Publish Date : 2018/06/06
The Rohingya crisis has reached “unprecedented proportions” in recent months with hundreds of thousands of people in need of humanitarian assistance, the EU commissioner for humanitarian aid said.
News ID: 70477 Publish Date : 2018/06/01
For the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Southeast Bangladesh in the past nine months, the approaching monsoon season poses the most serious threat since they were violently expelled from Myanmar, according to reports.
News ID: 70405 Publish Date : 2018/05/28
TEHRAN (defapress)- The government in Bangladesh is rapidly pushing a controversial plan to relocate some 100,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar to an isolated and flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, where they may be stranded forever.
News ID: 68810 Publish Date : 2018/02/22
UN Official:
TEHRAN (defapress)- A human rights investigator said humanitarian conditions in camps hosting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are set to worsen in the next few months, while also raising concerns about a plan to repatriate the fleeing minority back to Myanmar.
News ID: 68220 Publish Date : 2018/01/22
TEHRAN (defapress) - The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders says at least 6,700 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority group were killed in state-sponsored violence in Myanmar only in a period of one month beginning on August 25.
News ID: 67486 Publish Date : 2017/12/14
