More Than 100 Rohingya Flee Malaysian Detention Center

VOA
By Associated Press
February 02, 2024

Immigration officers inspect a river near the immigration detention center in Bidor in Malaysia's northern Perak state on Feb. 2, 2024, after more than 100 Rohingya refugees escaped the facility.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia —

More than 100 Rohingya immigrants have escaped from a detention center in Malaysia after a protest, with one confirmed killed in a road accident, officials said Friday.

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Malaysian field hospital in Cox’s Bazar handed over to govt

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report

March 15, 2021

The Malaysian field hospital, set up in late 2017 in Cox's Bazar by the Malaysian government in response to the Rohingya refugee crisis, was handed over to the Bangladesh government yesterday.

The Malaysian field hospital was handed over to the Bangladesh government on Sunday, March 14, 2021. Photo: Collected

The hospital, situated near Ukhia Degree College was handed over to Bangladeshi authorities in a programme around 11:00am at the college grounds, reports our Cox's Bazar correspondent.

The programme was attended by High Commissioner of Malaysia to Bangladesh Haznah Md Hashim, Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Shah Rezwan Hayat, Additional Commissioner Mohammad Shamsud Dauza and other government officials.

Malaysian authorities hold 202 Rohingya from boat off Langkawi

Aljazeera
2020.04.06

The Rohingya were detained after they were found on a wooden boat off the northwestern resort island. 

A photo made available by the MMEA on April 5 shows the wooden boat carrying more than 200 Rohingya off the island of Langkawi [MMEA via EPA]

Malaysian authorities have detained more than 200 ethnic Rohingya, including five children, after they intercepted a boat off the coast of the northwestern island of Langkawi.

The wooden vessel was found adrift just over one nautical mile (2.2 kilometres) from one of the island's luxury beach resorts on Sunday morning, the Malaysian maritime enforcement agency said in a statement.