35 more detainees suspected of linking with insurgent groups freed in Myanmar

Xinhua
Source: Xinhua
2019-05-09

YANGON, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-five more detainees, suspected of linking with an ethnic insurgent group, the Arakan Army (AA), have been freed after they were found not in connection with the group, said a release of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Services late Wednesday.

The release of the 35 suspects on Wednesday, following the 174 freed two days earlier, has brought the total released to 209 out of 275 detained.

Four Detainees Admit to Being Arakan Army Members: Army

The Irrawaddy 
By Moe Myint
8 May 2019

Army troops in the 74th Anniversary of Myanmar Armed Forces Day Parade in Naypyidaw on March 27, 2019. / The Irrawadd

YANGON—After eight days of interrogation during military detention, six out of dozens of detainees from Kyauktan Village in northern Rakhine State’s Rathedaung Township were transferred to Sittwe Police Station on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia accused of torturing Rohingya detainees to end hunger strike

MIDDLE EAST EYE
By Areeb Ullah

Published date: 17 April 2019

Rohingya detainees began the hunger strike to oppose their deportations and indefinite detention in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has continued to deport Rohingya detainees despite UN calls to give them refuge (Supplied)

Scores of stateless Rohingya refugees detained inside a Saudi detention centre have gone on hunger strike to demand an end to their indefinite detention in the Gulf kingdom.