Dozens of Rohingya refugees flee Malaysian immigration detention centre

Aljazeera
2 Feb 2024

Police blame riot after 115 Rohingya and 16 other people from Myanmar escaped the facility on Thursday night.

Ethnic Rohingya men have been taking risky sea journeys to Southeast Asia [File: Reza Saifullah/A{ Photo]

 

Malaysia is searching for dozens of Rohingya refugees and other people from Myanmar after they escaped from a temporary immigration detention centre in the country’s north.

80 people freed from Australian migrant centers since High Court outlawed indefinite detention

AP
By ROD McGUIRK
November 13, 2023

Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra on Sept. 12, 2023. Australia’s immigration minister said Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, that 80 people including convicted criminals who are considered dangerous have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention was unconstitutional. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Eighty people, including convicted criminals considered dangerous, have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention was unconstitutional, the immigration minister said Monday.

Baby dies after teargas fired at Rohingya trying to escape Indian detention centre

The Guardian
Kaamil Ahmed
Tue 25 Jul 2023

Child’s death follows hunger strike at Jammu & Kashmir jail amid increasing hostility towards 40,000 refugees ahead of elections 

A still from a video taken by one of the Rohingya detained at Hiranagar jail as Indian authorities teargassed the refugees last week. About 270 refugees are held at the jail. Photograph: Handout 

 

A five-month-old girl has died after Indian forces fired teargas at Rohingya refugees trying to escape a detention centre where they have been held for more than two years.

Videos – sent to Rohingya activists by detainees at Hiranagar jail, now operating as a holding centre – appear to show women and men amid clouds of teargas. About 270 Rohingya detainees at the centre, in the Indian-administered territory of Jammu & Kashmir, have been on hunger strike since April over their detention.

Six killed as hundreds of Rohingya flee Malaysia detention

Aljazeera

20 Apr 2022

More than 500 escaped an immigration detention centre in the country’s north early on Wednesday, but some were killed as they tried to cross a highway.

Rohingya refugees, who escaped from a Malaysian Immigration detention centre on Wednesday, squat on the verge after being rearrested by police [Royal Malaysia Police via AFP]

Malaysia set up roadblocks and deployed the police, immigration and volunteer security services after more than 500 mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees fled a temporary immigration detention centre in the country’s north.

'We would Rather Die Now than be Kept in Here Forever' – Life Inside a Saudi Detention Centre for Rohingya Refugees

BYLINE TIMES

CJ Werleman

9 July 2019

CJ Werleman documents his conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a Rohingya Muslim who has been held in the kingdom’s notorious Shumaisi detention centre for the past six years.

For several months, I have been holding regular conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a 20-year-old Rohingya Muslim asylum seeker who has been detained and separated from his parents in Saudi Arabia’s notorious Shumaisi detention centre since 2013.

Group calls for release of hundreds of Rohingya in Saudi detention centre

FTM
FMT Reporters
April 18, 2019

PETALING JAYA: A group representing Rohingya concerns in Malaysia has spoken in defence of hundreds of its countrymen who went on a hunger strike to protest their seven-year detention in Saudi Arabia.