TEHRAN (IQNA) – A new exodus of boats carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar has begun, with at least six boats carrying hundreds of refugees intercepted at sea or washing ashore over the past month.
News ID: 3467390 Publish Date : 2018/12/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Authorities in Myanmar seized a boat carrying 93 people, apparently Rohingya Muslims, fleeing displacement camps in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State and hoping to reach Malaysia, an official said on Tuesday.
News ID: 3467314 Publish Date : 2018/11/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A United Nations committee on Friday endorsed a resolution turning up the heat on Myanmar over the persecution of its Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3467235 Publish Date : 2018/11/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Southeast Asian nations will call for those responsible for atrocities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to be held “fully accountable”, according to a statement prepared for a regional summit, reflecting a stronger line being taken within the group.
News ID: 3467209 Publish Date : 2018/11/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations refugee agency on Monday cautioned against returning ethnic Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar from Bangladesh at this time, urging that officials be allowed to assess whether it is safe for them to return.
News ID: 3467206 Publish Date : 2018/11/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar are to push ahead with the repatriation of thousands of Rohingya Muslims this week, despite objections by the UN, and against the wishes of the refugees, who spoke of being “terrified” at being sent back.
News ID: 3467193 Publish Date : 2018/11/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia is set to send scores of Rohingya Muslim refugees to Bangladesh, years after they fled persecution in their home country; but have indefinitely been held in the Kingdom’s detention centers.
News ID: 3467172 Publish Date : 2018/11/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Facebook Inc on Monday said a human rights report it commissioned on its presence in Myanmar showed it had not done enough to prevent its social network from being used to incite violence.
News ID: 3467160 Publish Date : 2018/11/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Tuesday to begin by November the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape a Myanmar army crackdown, though doubts about a speedy return are likely to persist.
News ID: 3467112 Publish Date : 2018/10/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Hundreds of Rohingya Muslim men, women, and children have been held indefinitely for several years without charge inside a detention center in Saudi Arabia.
News ID: 3467102 Publish Date : 2018/10/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims is still continuing, UN investigators said Wednesday as they presented a report to the Security Council, calling for the issue to be referred to an international tribunal.
News ID: 3467071 Publish Date : 2018/10/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – After previous setbacks, Asean is coordinating efforts to send home one million Rohingya Muslims who are currently seeking shelter in Bangladesh by early next year.
News ID: 3467047 Publish Date : 2018/10/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations special envoy to Myanmar met with State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw on Friday to discuss the Rohingya crisis in beleaguered Rakhine state, where the repatriation of some of the 720,000 Muslim refugees who fled to Bangladesh last year during a crackdown has yet to get under way.
News ID: 3466960 Publish Date : 2018/10/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – India plans to send seven Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar, in the first deportation of members of the Myanmar minority group since the home ministry ordered state authorities last year to identify and deport them and other illegal immigrants.
News ID: 3466898 Publish Date : 2018/10/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nation's assistant secretary general for humanitarian affairs urged the international community to pay attention to the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population, the majority of whom are now living as refugees in Bangladesh.
News ID: 3466861 Publish Date : 2018/09/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Bangladesh’s leader accused neighboring Myanmar of finding new excuses to delay the return of more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who were forced across the border over the past year, and said in an interview late Tuesday that under no circumstance would the refugees remain permanently in her already crowded country.
News ID: 3466841 Publish Date : 2018/09/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Two Reuters journalists have each been sentenced to seven years in prison after they were found guilty of breaching the Official Secrets Act in Myanmar, prompting outcry from the international community.
News ID: 3466683 Publish Date : 2018/09/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for accountability for the “horrendous persecution” of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar on Tuesday, and Sweden and the Netherlands urged the Security Council to refer the crimes to the International Criminal Court.
News ID: 3466644 Publish Date : 2018/08/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saifullah Muhammad is happy the world is finally calling the Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya minority what it is: genocide.
News ID: 3466634 Publish Date : 2018/08/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for orchestrating the gravest crimes under law, UN investigators said on Monday.
News ID: 3466623 Publish Date : 2018/08/27
