Thirty-five Rohingya sentenced in Myanmar to 5 years in jail

MIZZIMA
21 November 2022

Lawyers have reported that on 16 November, Bogale Township Court sentenced 35 Muslim Rohingya to five years in prison.

Military Council troops apprehended 62 Rohingya people near Kadonelay island, Kadonkani village-tract, Bogale Township, Ayeyarwaddy Region, at 10 pm on 30 October.

Key human trafficker dies in jail

BangkokPost
3 JUN 2021

Lt Gen Manas Kongpan, centre, at the Criminal Court in Bangkok in December 2015. (Photo: Apichit Jinakul)

Lt Gen Manas Kongpan, a convict in the country's largest human-trafficking case, died of heart attack at Medical Correctional Hospital on Wednesday night.

Sources said that Lt Gen Manas, a former army adviser and native of the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat, had a heart attack while exercising on the eight floor of the hospital. He was pronounced dead at around 8pm on Wednesday.

Earlier he had had hypertension, high cholesterol and bradycardia and been admitted to the hospital.

168 Rohingya living illegally in Jammu sent to jail, say officials

The Tribune
Jammu, March 7

The Rohingyas are a Bengali-dialect speaking Muslim minority in Myanmar

Authorities here have sent 168 Rohingya to jail after they were found living illegally in the city, officials said on Sunday.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday had began a drive to collect biometric and other details of Rohingyas staying here. The drive is part of an exercise to trace foreigners living in the city without valid documents.

“At least 168 illegal immigrant Rohingyas have been sent to Hiranagar jail,” a senior police officer told PTI.

79 Rohingyas arrested since 2011, 52 sent back: Manipur CM

The Indian EXPRESS

Written by Jimmy Leivon | Imphal | Published: February 27, 2019 8:22:34 pm

To put a stop on the influx of immigrants, Singh said his government has urged the Centre to implement the National Register of Citizens in the state. (Reuters/Representational)

 

Of the total Rohingyas arrested, 52 were deported to their respective country after they completed their jail term. The remaining 27 are serving their term under the Foreigners Act, the CM said.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Wednesday informed the state assembly that a total of 79 Rohingyas were arrested between 2011 and 2018 when they were trying to enter Manipur without valid documents.

Jailed Reuters reporters to launch last appeal to Myanmar court.

By AFP
1 February 2019

                    Myanmar police officer Moe Yan Naing was sentenced to a year in jail after giving testimony in support of two journalists

Lawyers for two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years in Myanmar on charges linked to their reporting of the Rohingya crisis are set Friday to lodge an appeal with the Supreme Court -- a last chance of a reprieve through the legal system.