Myanmar refuses to accept Rohingya girl deported by India: Report
3 years, 8 months ago

Myanmar refuses to accept Rohingya girl deported by India: Report

Al Jazeera  

India’s move to deport 14-year-old girl to coup-hit Myanmar while her family lived in a refugee camp in Bangladesh draws criticism. Myanmar has refused to accept a 14-year-old Rohingya girl deported by India, an Indian media report said, as the United Nations refugee agency and rights groups criticised New Delhi for the move. The girl was taken to a border town in northeastern India’s Manipur state on Thursday for deportation, police officials said, but the authorities in coup-hit Myanmar refused to accept her. Tens of thousands of Rohingya, forced to flee Myanmar following a military crackdown the UN said was carried out with “genocidal intent”, have lived in India and neighbouring Bangladesh for years.

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A nuanced and compassionate understanding of Rohingya’s flight is the need of the hour
1 week, 2 days ago

A nuanced and compassionate understanding of Rohingya’s flight is the need of the hour

The Hindu  

The presence of Rohingya community within India is progressively becoming an issue of political blame-game and some political actors are busy pedalling mass anxiety without factoring in the complex multiplicity of vectors related to the issue, including the growing importance of the issue globally. They have accused the ruling National Conference government of protecting the settlers by providing them with …

Northeastern View | Rohingya refugees entering India through the Northeast need humanitarian assistance, not punishment
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Northeastern View | Rohingya refugees entering India through the Northeast need humanitarian assistance, not punishment

Hindustan Times  

On the evening of July 30, police in Tripura arrested six women from Bangladesh who had allegedly crossed over to India illegally. The detentions, once again, bring to sharp relief the role of Northeast India as a key asylum route for Rohingya refugees. Rohingya refugees and the Northeast For long, Rohingya refugees have entered India through Northeast India, which shares …

India says new law saves persecuted refugees. Rohingya ask ‘Why not us?’
8 months, 3 weeks ago

India says new law saves persecuted refugees. Rohingya ask ‘Why not us?’

Al Jazeera  

As New Delhi claims to help persecuted minorities in South Asia through the law, the mainly Muslim refugees from Myanmar face deportation. Kolkata, India – Muhammad Hamin has been unable to sleep at night since March 8 when the government of the northeast Indian state of Manipur ordered the deportation of Rohingya refugees. Three days after the Manipur government began …

Underage Rohingya girls trapped in abusive marriages in Malaysia
1 year ago

Underage Rohingya girls trapped in abusive marriages in Malaysia

Firstpost  

It wasn’t her choice. In desperation, a neighbor found a man in Malaysia who would pay the 18,000 ringgit fee for the girl’s passage and — after she married him — send money to her family for food. Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages …

The petition challenging Rohingya refugees’ ‘illegal detention’ in India | Explained
1 year, 2 months ago

The petition challenging Rohingya refugees’ ‘illegal detention’ in India | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: Shadiya, a 22-year-old, has spent three years detained in a ‘holding’ centre for Rohingya refugees; separated from her child, she lives in a closed space without sunlight, described as big enough to barely spread one’s mattress. A writ petition in the Supreme Court on October 10 challenged the hostile and dehumanising conditions many Rohingya refugees like …

India’s Rohingya refugee children are not criminals
1 year, 3 months ago

India’s Rohingya refugee children are not criminals

The Hindu  

A five-month-old infant born to a Rohingya refugee died in a detention or holding centre in Jammu in July. In this particular holding centre in Jammu, which was a prison before, more than 250 Rohingya refugees including women and children have been confined there since March 2021. Thus, hundreds of Rohingya refugees have been arbitrarily detained, many languishing indefinitely in …

Myanmar arrests nearly 150 fleeing Rohingya
1 year, 4 months ago

Myanmar arrests nearly 150 fleeing Rohingya

The Hindu  

Myanmar authorities have arrested nearly 150 Rohingya suspected of trying to flee the country, an official told AFP on Tuesday. The military launched a crackdown on Rohingya in 2017, and thousands now risk their lives each year making perilous journeys from camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar to reach Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia. Bangladesh and Myanmar have discussed efforts to begin …

India police arrest 74 Rohingya refugees in latest crackdown
1 year, 4 months ago

India police arrest 74 Rohingya refugees in latest crackdown

Al Jazeera  

The arrested include 14 women and five children living in six districts of Uttar Pradesh state ‘after crossing the border illegally’, police said. Indian police say they have arrested 74 Rohingya refugees for living “illegally” in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in a move activists condemned as an arbitrary crackdown on people fleeing violence. Those arrested included 55 men, …

Rohingya refugees in arbitrary detention, denied exit permissions by India: Report
1 year, 7 months ago

Rohingya refugees in arbitrary detention, denied exit permissions by India: Report

The Hindu  

May 18, 2023 10:30 pm | Updated May 19, 2023 09:53 am IST - New Delhi India is not allowing exit permissions for Rohingya refugees who have completed refugee status determinations with the UN Refugee Agency and “gained approval from third countries for resettlement,” says a new report titled ‘A Shadow of Refuge: Rohingya Refugees in India’. “Separating Rohingya children …

Photos: Rohingya in Myanmar count the dead after Cyclone Mocha
1 year, 7 months ago

Photos: Rohingya in Myanmar count the dead after Cyclone Mocha

Al Jazeera  

Rohingya people in cyclone-hit Myanmar buried loved ones outside shattered villages and searched for the missing, expecting little help from a government that denies their identity. Cyclone Mocha snapped bridges, downed power lines, and ruptured close-lying huts in displacement camps and villages across Rakhine state, leaving tens of thousands of the persecuted minority even more on the edge. The Arakan …

‘Becoming visible’: India’s first female Rohingya graduate
1 year, 8 months ago

‘Becoming visible’: India’s first female Rohingya graduate

Al Jazeera  

Tasmida Johar is happy she was able to study despite all the odds but wishes other women in her community also had the opportunity. New Delhi, India – Tasmida Johar, India’s first woman graduate from the displaced Rohingya community, says she is going through a “conflicting feeling” these days. “But it makes me sad that I am the first one …

Myanmar jails 112 Rohingya for travelling \'without documents\'
1 year, 11 months ago

Myanmar jails 112 Rohingya for travelling \'without documents\'

Deccan Chronicle  

YANGON: Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in prison for attempting to travel to Malaysia "without legal documents", state media reported Tuesday. The group were arrested last month in the southern Ayeyarwady region and sentenced on January 6, according to a report by the Global New Light of Myanmar, which …

Children among dead as stranded Rohingya face starvation at sea, families say
2 years ago

Children among dead as stranded Rohingya face starvation at sea, families say

CNN  

CNN — Many Rohingya are feared dead at sea more than three weeks after their boat became stranded off the Indian coast, where at least 160 people remain aboard on the brink of starvation, family members and the United Nations’ refugee agency said. A United Nations spokesman said there were “unverified reports suggesting at least 20 people may have already …

Myanmar’s exiled National Unity Government cautiously recognises rights of Rohingyas
2 years ago

Myanmar’s exiled National Unity Government cautiously recognises rights of Rohingyas

The Hindu  

The laws of Myanmar that prompted one of the largest refugee crises in recent decades involving the Rohingya community of the Rakhine province is deeply unpopular among the democratic anti-junta forces. The Hindu was told recently that the ruling military junta is under growing pressure from the “troops” of the National Unity Government which is being “actively engaged” by several …

Information on Rohingya detention centres a ‘secret’, says Union Home Ministry in RTI reply
2 years, 2 months ago

Information on Rohingya detention centres a ‘secret’, says Union Home Ministry in RTI reply

The Hindu  

Months after Ministry of Home Affairs announced on micro blogging site Twitter that it has directed the Delhi Government to declare the “present location” of Rohingya “illegal foreigners” in Delhi a detention centre, the Ministry said in an RTI reply that the information is “secret.” On August 17, Union Housing minister Hardeep Singh Puri’s tweeted that Rohingya refugees will be …

Organised Influx of Illegal Migrants From Myanmar, Some Rohingya Migrants Have Links With Pak Based Terror Groups: Centre To Delhi HC
2 years, 3 months ago

Organised Influx of Illegal Migrants From Myanmar, Some Rohingya Migrants Have Links With Pak Based Terror Groups: Centre To Delhi HC

Live Law  

The Centre Wednesday informed Delhi High Court that it has "contemporaneous data from security agencies" and inputs indicating that "some unauthorised Rohingya migrants" are linked to Pakistan based terror organisations and similar groups operating in other countries.The Foreigners Regional Registration Office, Delhi - which has made the submissions on behalf of Union of India also, further. The Centre Wednesday informed …

‘Feeling like prisoners’: The plight of Rohingya refugees today
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Feeling like prisoners’: The plight of Rohingya refugees today

Al Jazeera  

Five years after crackdown by security forces led to mass exodus from Myanmar, Rohingya remain stuck in ‘cruel limbo’. The violence – which included reports of gang rape, mass killings, and forced expulsion – brought renewed international attention to decades of documented persecution against the mostly Muslim Rohingya, who are largely stateless after years of what rights monitors have called …

‘It’s a nightmare, every day’: Rohingya in India live in fear
2 years, 3 months ago

‘It’s a nightmare, every day’: Rohingya in India live in fear

Al Jazeera  

Some 40,000 Rohingya refugees live in India where fears are growing as calls for deportations to Myanmar increase. Muhammad, 40, who has three children, arrived in India in 2012 and lives in one of the temporary Rohingya shelters located in southeast Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj area where more than 300 refugees live. While the refugee camps in Bangladesh, now home to …

Timeline: Five years of Rohingya refugee crisis
2 years, 3 months ago

Timeline: Five years of Rohingya refugee crisis

Al Jazeera  

August 25 marks the fifth anniversary of the military crackdown that the UN said was carried out with ‘genocidal intent’. Here are the key dates in the five-year crisis: Army operations On August 25, 2017, a shadowy Rohingya armed group, called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, stages coordinated attacks on dozens of police posts in Myanmar’s coastal Rakhine state, killing …

Bangladesh PM tells UN that Myanmar must take Rohingya back
2 years, 4 months ago

Bangladesh PM tells UN that Myanmar must take Rohingya back

Hindustan Times  

Bangladesh's leader told a visiting UN official on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh must return home to Myanmar, where they had fled waves of violent persecution. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the comment to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. More than 700,000 …

Bangladesh tells UN that Rohingya refugees must return to Myanmar
2 years, 4 months ago

Bangladesh tells UN that Rohingya refugees must return to Myanmar

Al Jazeera  

UN rights chief says return of Rohingya refugees is not possible currently due to concerns about their safety in Myanmar. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told the UN rights chief that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh must return home to Myanmar, from where they had fled waves of violent persecution. UN High …

Calcutta High Court Restrains UOI From Deporting 4 Rohingya Muslim Women To Myanmar Till August 10
2 years, 4 months ago

Calcutta High Court Restrains UOI From Deporting 4 Rohingya Muslim Women To Myanmar Till August 10

Live Law  

As a temporary measure, the Calcutta High Court has restrained the Union Of India from deporting 4 Rohingya refugee women to Myanmar till August 10. The bench of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya further directed that the 4 women should be provided with facilities that are commensurate to their right to live with dignity.Essentially, the Court is dealing with the plea filed …

Rights groups slam India for deporting Rohingya woman to Myanmar
2 years, 8 months ago

Rights groups slam India for deporting Rohingya woman to Myanmar

Al Jazeera  

Rights groups say the forced deportation of Rohingya to Myanmar is a ‘cruel disregard for human life and international law’. Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – The deportation of a 36-year-old Rohingya woman by Indian authorities and fresh detention of Rohingya refugees in Indian-administered Kashmir has been criticised by human rights groups, who called New Delhi’s forcible return of refugees a “cruel …

No action taken on Rohingya, no deportation planned: Karnataka govt tells SC
3 years, 1 month ago

No action taken on Rohingya, no deportation planned: Karnataka govt tells SC

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka governmenton Mondaytold the Supreme Court that it has not taken any action against the six dozen Rohingya refugees identified by the police, nor does it have any plan to deport them. SC on Rohingya refugees in Karnataka “Bengaluru city police have not housed Rohingyas in any camp or detention centre within its jurisdiction. In March this year, in …

Myanmar nationals given ‘safe passage’ to Delhi to seek UN refuge
3 years, 7 months ago

Myanmar nationals given ‘safe passage’ to Delhi to seek UN refuge

Al Jazeera  

Seven, including three journalists, set to travel to India’s capital to approach UNHCR after Manipur court orders safe passage for them. Moreh, Manipur, India – Seven Myanmar nationals, including three journalists from a Yangon-based media house, are set to travel to New Delhi to approach the India office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees after a court in …

Rohingya refugees face deportation threat
3 years, 8 months ago

Rohingya refugees face deportation threat

The Hindu  

As Myanmar reels under a violent crackdown following a military coup, Rohingya Muslims who fled to India years ago are being detained and threatened with forced deportation to their troubled country. He termed the Rohingya as “illegal migrants” and said the government would confirm with Myanmar if they were its citizens and then deport them in accordance with law. But …

‘Supreme Court has signed our death warrant’: Rohingya in India
3 years, 8 months ago

‘Supreme Court has signed our death warrant’: Rohingya in India

Al Jazeera  

Supreme Court refuses to stop deportation of about 170 Rohingya detained in the Indian-administered Kashmir region’s Jammu area last month. Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – India’s Supreme Court has refused to stop the deportation to Myanmar of about 170 Rohingya refugees detained in the Indian-administered Kashmir region’s Jammu area, with the members of the beleaguered community calling it a “death warrant” …

SC allows deportation of Rohingya refugees detained at Jammu to their parent country
3 years, 8 months ago

SC allows deportation of Rohingya refugees detained at Jammu to their parent country

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the deportation of Rohingya refugees detained at Jammu. Passing the order on the PIL moved by Mohammad Salimullah for the protection of Rohingyas, the court refused to order the release of nearly 150 Rohingyas detained in holding centres in Jammu and allowed their deportation to their parent country as per procedure of …

Supreme Court Allows Deportation Of Rohingyas To Myanmar As Per Procedure Prescribed [Read Order]
3 years, 8 months ago

Supreme Court Allows Deportation Of Rohingyas To Myanmar As Per Procedure Prescribed [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant relief in a petition challenging the detention of Rohingya refugees in Jammu and the move to deport them back to their parent country Myanmar. However it is made clear that the Rohingyas in Jammu, on whose behalf the application has been moved, shall not be deported unless the procedure prescribed for such …

India moves to deport Rohingya girl to Myanmar, UN opposes
3 years, 8 months ago

India moves to deport Rohingya girl to Myanmar, UN opposes

India Today  

A 14-year-old Rohingya Muslim girl has been taken to a border town in northeastern India for deportation to Myanmar, police officials said on Thursday, as the U.N. refugee agency and rights groups pressed New Delhi to halt the process. “This was previously scheduled.” Diba Roy, founder of non-profit Nivedita Nari Sangshta in Assam’s Silchar town that had cared for the …

Fleeing coup, Myanmar refugees in India seek asylum
3 years, 9 months ago

Fleeing coup, Myanmar refugees in India seek asylum

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Police officers who defied the …

Dozens of Rohingya camping outside UNHCR office in India detained
3 years, 9 months ago

Dozens of Rohingya camping outside UNHCR office in India detained

Al Jazeera  

At least 88 Rohingya detained in New Delhi while camping outside the UN refugee body’s office in second such move in a week. Rohingya community leaders said the refugees had come to New Delhi on Wednesday from Jammu district in Indian-administered Kashmir, where more than 160 Rohingya were detained last week and taken to a “holding centre” in Kathua district, …

Rohingya refugees without valid papers rounded up and confined to ‘holding centres’ in Jammu and Kashmir
3 years, 9 months ago

Rohingya refugees without valid papers rounded up and confined to ‘holding centres’ in Jammu and Kashmir

The Hindu  

The exercise of identifying Rohingya immigrants who are “illegally” staying in Jammu and Kashmir is in full swing, with the Union Territory administration collecting biometric and other details of members of the community. Civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained by the military regime, did littlle to assuage the Rohingyas’ condition in Myanmar while her party was …

Jammu residents welcome central government's action against illegal Rohingyas
3 years, 9 months ago

Jammu residents welcome central government's action against illegal Rohingyas

Op India  

The Government of India has started the process to identify Rohingyas living in Jammu and deport them back to Myanmar. Videos of Rohingyas surfaced on social media After the Government started the process of identifying Rohingyas in Jammu and detained 155 of them, several videos surfaced in which Rohingyas were allegedly seen leaving their houses. See thier huge numbers pic.twitter.com/4dkjRD2Kfs …

‘Repeat of what happened in Myanmar’: India detains 160 Rohingya
3 years, 9 months ago

‘Repeat of what happened in Myanmar’: India detains 160 Rohingya

Al Jazeera  

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir send dozens of Rohingya refugees to ‘holding centre’, as activists decry the move. New Delhi, India – Indian authorities have detained more than 160 Rohingya in the Jammu area of Indian-administered Kashmir, with members of the persecuted minority saying the move was a “repeat of what happened with them in Myanmar”. The detentions in Jammu began …

Govt Sets Up Holding Center for Rohingya in Kashmir, Plans for Deportation
3 years, 9 months ago

Govt Sets Up Holding Center for Rohingya in Kashmir, Plans for Deportation

News 18  

Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have sent at least 168 Rohingya refugees to a holding center, police said Sunday, in a process that they say is for the deportation of thousands of the refugees living in the region. The move began Saturday following a directive from the regions home department to identify Rohingya living in the southern city of Jammu, …

India sets up holding center for Rohingya in Kashmir
3 years, 9 months ago

India sets up holding center for Rohingya in Kashmir

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have sent at least 168 Rohingya refugees to a holding center, police said Sunday, in a process that they say is for the deportation of thousands of the refugees living in the region. The move began Saturday following a directive from the region’s home department to identify Rohingya living in the southern city …

UP ATS arrests 3 Rohingyas living illegally in India; forged documents, passports recovered
3 years, 9 months ago

UP ATS arrests 3 Rohingyas living illegally in India; forged documents, passports recovered

India Today  

Uttar Pradesh ATS has arrested three Rohingya Muslims who were living in India on forged documents. Arrested from Unnao, Aligarh and Noida on the basis of input from the Lucknow-based Military Intelligence unit, the three men were facilitating others from Bangladesh and Myanmar to acquire similar documents and settle down in India. After monitoring their movements for a month, the …

Bangladesh under ’no obligation’ to accept stranded Rohingya refugees: Foreign minister
3 years, 9 months ago

Bangladesh under ’no obligation’ to accept stranded Rohingya refugees: Foreign minister

Live Mint  

Bangladesh is under "no obligation" to shelter 81 Rohingya Muslim refugees adrift for almost two weeks on the Andaman Sea and being assisted by neighbouring India, said Bangladesh foreign minister A.K. India's coast guard found the 81 survivors and eight dead crammed onto a crippled fishing boat and were trying to arrange for Bangladesh to take them, Indian officials said …

Rohingya refugees fear returning to Myanmar after coup
3 years, 10 months ago

Rohingya refugees fear returning to Myanmar after coup

Associated Press  

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh condemned the military coup in their homeland and said it makes them more fearful to return. A counterinsurgency operation by Myanmar’s military in 2017 involving mass rape, murders and the torching of villages drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims into neighboring Bangladesh. “It will take a long time …

Myanmar Police Arrest Nearly 100 Rohingya in Raid on House in Yangon
3 years, 11 months ago

Myanmar Police Arrest Nearly 100 Rohingya in Raid on House in Yangon

News 18  

Myanmar police arrested nearly 100 ethnic Rohingya on Wednesday after raiding a house in the commercial capital of Yangon, police and local media said. Myanmar frequently detains Rohingya, members of a Muslim minority, on grounds of “illegal travel” for attempting to leave their native western Rakhine state. Some 600,000 Rohingya live in Myanmar under what Amnesty International has called “apartheid …

Bangladesh to ship new group of Rohingya refugees to remote island
3 years, 11 months ago

Bangladesh to ship new group of Rohingya refugees to remote island

Live Mint  

Bangladesh will move a second group of Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday, officials said, despite calls by rights groups to stop the relocation on safety grounds. More than 1,100 Rohingya refugees, members of a Muslim minority who have fled Myanmar, will be moved from a refugee camp near the Myanmar border to …

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