The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted 24 operatives of international human trafficking syndicates involved in the trafficking of Bangladeshis and Rohingyas of Myanmar origin into the country with forged Indian identity documents for carrying out anti-national activities. The chargesheeted accused include four Bangladesh nationals and one Rohingya of Myanmar […]
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Woman approaches SC seeking release of her Rohingya sister from detention centre
A woman has approached the Supreme Court seeking the release of her sister, a Rohingya refugee, from the Detention Centre at Shahzada Bagh to take care of her baby son. A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and also comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra on […]
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Link of Rohingya with Pakistan-based terror organisation is serious threat to India: Centre to Delhi HC
The Central Government has informed the Delhi High Court that there is contemporaneous data from security agencies’ inputs and other authentic material indicating linkages of some of the unauthorised Rohingya migrants with Pakistan-based terror organisations and similar organisations operating in other countries. Over and above the said serious security concerns already in […]
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Myanmar: 5 years since Rohingya mass exodus, UNHCR urges solutions
This week marks five years since more than 700,000 ethnic Rohingya fled military persecution from Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said. “The latest exodus from Myanmar is now officially defined as being a protracted situation,” UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo on Tuesday told journalists at a regular press briefing in Geneva. Since the onset of the humanitarian crisis, the Bangladesh […]
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US to declare Myanmar junta committed genocide against Rohingya
The United States is set to declare that the Myanmar military’s violence against the Rohingya minority amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, media reports said on Sunday. This decision will be announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Since the coup […]
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Bangladesh moves thousands more Rohingya to remote island
Bangladesh authorities yesterday moved more than 1,750 Rohingya Muslims to a controversial island in the Bay of Bengal despite complaints made by refugees already there. Officials said over 3,000 Rohingya would be taken by boat to Bhashan Char island yesterday and today from congested camps on Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar. […]
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International Court of Justice orders interim protection for Myanmar’s Rohingya
The International Court of Justice has ordered the implementation of emergency measures to protect Myanmar’s minority Muslim Rohingya population from genocide, ruling on a request by The Gambia on Thursday. The Muslim-majority African country has accused Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention using so-called “clearance operations” that began in […]