URGENT ACTION ROHINGYA COMMUNITY LEADERS IMPRISONED

Four Rohingya men have been imprisoned for their role in community protests in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in 2013. They are prisoners of conscience who must be immediately and unconditionally released.

On 3 March 2015, the Rakhine State Divisional Court sentenced Ba Thar, Kyaw Myint and his son Hla Myint to eight years’ imprisonment for “rioting” (Section 147 of the Penal Code), “causing voluntary grievous hurt to a public servant in the discharge of his duty” (Section 333), and “banditry” (Section 395). The court also sentenced Kyaw Khin to five years’ imprisonment under Sections 147 and 333 of the Penal Code. They are all serving their sentences in Sittwe prison, Rakhine State.

URGENT ACTION ROHINGYA COMMUNITY LEADERS IMPRISONED

Rohingya ‘Voting Right’ Campaign

Rohingya ‘Voting Right’ Campaign

Rohingya, one of the world most persecuted people in the world, are a native Muslim minority group from Arakan state of Burma (Myanmar) who have lived peacefully and enjoyed the rights of being the natives of Arakan.

They are not only forced towards statelessness in their own land, and also forced to be the major victims of persecution, prosecution, extermination and expulsion from their native land after Dictator Ne Win came to power in 1962.

Joint Statement: Stop State Terrorism in Arakan against Rohingya

Joint Statement: Stop State Terrorism in Arakan against Rohingya

Date: March 11, 2015

We, the undersigned organizations strongly condemn the brutal and inhuman behaviors of Burmese Government and its terrorist and ultra‐nationalist allied who are pushing the country into the worst by ignoring fundamental rights of indigenous Rohingya of Arakan State and assaulting the world concerns through perpetrated crimes against humanity and street protests against due rights, peace and stability.

108 Rohingyas held for illegal entry

108 Rohingyas held for illegal entry

BGB man injured as traffickers open fire; detainees pushed back to Myanmar

Border Guard Bangladesh members intercepted a convoy of vehicles carrying hundreds of Rohingya intruders in Ukhiya of Cox's Bazar and detained 108 of them.

A subedar of the BGB was shot by the alleged human traffickers during the incident. He was flown to the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka where doctors said he was out of danger.

The Rohingya detainees were later pushed back to Myanmar, according to BGB sources.