Showing posts with label Jailed. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Six Rohingya sentenced to five years without trial

DVB
By English Editor
August 17, 2023


FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM

 

The Maungdaw Township court sentenced six Rohingya to five years in prison for allegedly violating Myanmar’s immigration law. The six Rohingya were from Myanmar, but had fled to Bangladesh during the 2017 violence perpetrated by the military against the Rohingya community in northern Rakhine State, which was labeled as a ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’ by the U.N. and as genocide by the U.S. government in 2022. 

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Where Poets Are Being Killed and Jailed After a Military Coup

The New York Times
By Hannah Beech
May 25, 2021
Poetry remains alive in Myanmar, where unconventional weapons are being used to fight a military that has killed about 800 people since it staged a coup on Feb. 1.Credit...The New York Times

More than 30 poets have been imprisoned since the military seized power in Myanmar, a country where politics and poetry are intimately connected.

After the first and second poets were killed, the third poet wrote a poem.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Rohingya youth lands in Tripura jail on his way to Delhi

THE NORTH EAST AFFAIRS
NEA News Service
March 17, 2021

The accused was identified as Sona Mian (40) has been doing business in New Delhi for over a decade and his family is living in Chittagong of South Bangladesh.


Agartala: A local court of Sepahijala district in West Tripura has sent a Rohingya youth to jail yesterday for illegally crossing the border from Bangladesh.

The accused was identified as Sona Mian (40) has been doing business in New Delhi for over a decade and his family is living in Chittagong of South Bangladesh.

Monday, April 29, 2019

Bangladesh jails three Rohingya extremists busted with bomb-making materials for 10 years

the japan times
AFP-JIJI
Apr 29, 2019 

Rohingya refugees look on as Bangladeshi police walk past at the Unchiprang refugee camp near Teknaf last fall. Criminal gangs and militants are increasing their grip on Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, committing killings and abductions with "impunity," International Crisis Group said Thursday. | AFP-JIJI

DHAKA - A Bangladesh court Sunday sentenced three Rohingya extremists of a now defunct militant group to 10 years in jail for possessing bomb-making materials, a prosecutor said.

The trio were arrested in 2014 in Dhaka with materials to be used for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs), said Salahuddin Howlader, a prosecutor at the Metropolitan Special Tribunal in the capital.

Sunday, April 21, 2019

495 foreigners are in jails: Asaduzzaman

Theindepedent
Independent Online Desk
20 April, 2019
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said there are 495 foreigners in Bangladesh jails.

“A total of 495 nationals of different countries are now languishing in Bangladesh jails,” he said at a seminar titled “Combating Trafficking: Repatriation of Victims of Trafficking” in the city.

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Reuters reporters in Myanmar jailed for revealing Rohingya massacre and mass grave win Pulitzer Prizes.

South China Morning Post
By Reuters
16 Apr, 2019



  • Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo found a mass grave filled with bones sticking out of the ground and went on to gather testimony from perpetrators, witnesses and families of victims
  • Before they could complete their story, they were arrested and jailed for seven years for what international observers have called an effort to block the report
Detained Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon. PHoto: Reuters

Imprisoned Reuters journalists in Myanmar, who uncovered the massacre of Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and security forces, have been announced winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prize.

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Myanmar court jails Rakhine leader for 20 years for treason

The Phnom Penh Post
AFP | Publication date 20 March 2019 |




A Myanmar court on Tuesday sentenced a prominent ethnic Rakhine leader to 20 years in jail for treason, a verdict likely to intensify anger amid fighting between the ethnic group and the army.

Security forces tried to calm hundreds of supporters outside the court in Rakhine state capital Sittwe as Aye Maung was escorted to a waiting police van following the verdict.