TEHRAN (IQNA) – A boat carrying almost 100 suspected Rohingya refugees was found floating several miles off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province on Wednesday after being rescued by fishermen, authorities said.
News ID: 3471780 Publish Date : 2020/06/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution calling upon Myanmar to create conditions and to establish a plan conducive to the voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable return of Rohingya s and all refugees and forcibly displaced persons.
News ID: 3471760 Publish Date : 2020/06/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Rohingya refugees attempting to reach Malaysia by boat from Bangladesh are being held hostage by human traffickers who have demanded large ransoms from their relatives with threats of violence, according to several families and aid organizations.
News ID: 3471709 Publish Date : 2020/06/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A second fire in less than a week occurred Sunday in cramped Rohingya settlements in Bangladesh’s southern district of Cox’s Bazar, according to authorities.
News ID: 3471448 Publish Date : 2020/05/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Occurring in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, Ramzan this year looks nothing like it has before.
News ID: 3471396 Publish Date : 2020/05/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Dozens of Rohingya Muslims believed to be from one of several boats floating in the Bay of Bengal for weeks have landed on the coast of southern Bangladesh, according to officials, as fears grow over hundreds of people stuck at sea on vessels because of coronavirus restrictions.
News ID: 3471342 Publish Date : 2020/05/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar’s police said the army had filed a lawsuit against Reuters news agency and a local lawmaker for criminal defamation, weeks after the military objected to a news story published about the death of two Rohingya Muslim women as a result of shelling in Rakhine state.
News ID: 3470876 Publish Date : 2020/03/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Muslim Rohingya population from persecution and atrocities, and preserve evidence of alleged crimes against them.
News ID: 3470430 Publish Date : 2020/01/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Rohingya advocacy group on Tuesday hit out at a Myanmar government-backed commission report that denied there was any genocide of the persecuted community.
News ID: 3470423 Publish Date : 2020/01/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A government-appointed panel established in Myanmar to probe allegations of abuses in Rakhine state in 2017 that drew global outrage said on Monday they had found no evidence of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3470411 Publish Date : 2020/01/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Myanmar government faced increasing pressure during 2019 for international justice for its human rights violations against the Rohingya and other ethnic minorities, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in its World Report 2020.
News ID: 3470368 Publish Date : 2020/01/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The UN General Assembly approved a resolution on Friday strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention.
News ID: 3470199 Publish Date : 2019/12/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday rejected accusations of genocide committed against her country’s Muslim Rohingya minority as “incomplete and misleading”, and said the case should not be heard by the UN’s highest court.
News ID: 3470088 Publish Date : 2019/12/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Rohingya Muslims in Europe are hopeful for the outcome of a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) filed against Myanmar by West African country Gambia for atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in the country over the past few years.
News ID: 3470075 Publish Date : 2019/12/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Human rights campaigners supporting Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority on Monday called for a global boycott of the country, a day before genocide hearings begin at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
News ID: 3470068 Publish Date : 2019/12/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi departed on Sunday for the UN’s top court in The Hague to defend the country against charges of genocide of its Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3470058 Publish Date : 2019/12/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar struck back on November 15 after a surge of global legal pressure over its alleged crimes against the Rohingya , branding an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) "not in accordance with international law".
News ID: 3469890 Publish Date : 2019/11/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Gambia filed a case at the United Nation’s top court against Myanmar accusing it of committing genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3469855 Publish Date : 2019/11/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The UN chief on Sunday urged Myanmar to ensure the "safe" return of Rohingya Muslim refugees driven out by army operations, a plea made in front of Aung San Suu Kyi more than two years since her country cracked down on the Muslim minority.
News ID: 3469796 Publish Date : 2019/11/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah expressed his country’s support for a “full-time, dedicated team” to implement the repatriation of the Rohingya Muslims who have been displaced from their home in Myanmar’s conflict-riddled Rakhine state.
News ID: 3469780 Publish Date : 2019/11/02
