Showing posts with label Closure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Closure. Show all posts

Saturday, December 7, 2019

Bangladesh orders closure of Rohingya advocacy office

Press TV
Friday, 06 December 2019
A Rohingya refugee man (foreground) works at the Kutupalong refugee camp, in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on September 13, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

Bangladesh has ordered the closure of the headquarters of a leading Rohingya advocacy group, which has become a key voice for the Muslim minority stuck in squalid camps, amid a clampdown by the country's authorities on the refugees.

A spokesman for the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH) said officials had told community leaders in the camps in southeast Bangladesh to keep the office of the ARSPH at Kutupalong — the world’s largest refugee settlement — padlocked until further notice.