DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least 348 Rohingya died or went missing in 2022, according to the UN refugee agency. Over 3,500 desperate members of the persecuted community attempted deadly sea voyages in the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal in 2022 in order to escape persecution and life in crammed refugee camps, the […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 194 irregular migrants who were pushed back into Turkish territorial waters by Greek authorities. Coast guard teams were dispatched off the coast of Ayvalik district in Balikesir province after detecting 73 foreign nationals in boats, according to the Turkish Coast Guard Command. Separately...
LONDON (AA) – A British citizen who was kept in custody and tortured at the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center has dedicated his life to rehabilitation of other detainees and protection of their rights after his release. Moazzam Begg was kept in the Guantanamo Bay detention center by the US government for two years in […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Bangladesh’s police of abusing the Rohingya refugees in the congested camps in the southern border district of Cox’s Bazar. In a report published on Tuesday, HRW said: “APBn (Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion) is committing extortion, arbitrary arrest, and harass...
WASHINGTON (AA) – More than 150 organizations have sent a letter to US President Joe Biden, urging him to “prioritize closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” The letter was signed by 159 organizations from the US and other countries who called themselves a “diverse group of non-governmental organizations” working on issu...
Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): Indonesian President Joko Widodo has expressed regret over mass human rights violations committed in the country’s past, including a violent anti-communist purge in the 1960s and the disappearance of student protesters in the late 1990s. More than half a million leftists were massacred across the Southeast Asian...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AA) – Since June 15, 2021, a total of 6,420 people have applied for compensation as relatives of 350 victims of the Srebrenica genocide during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, the spokesman for the Netherlands Compensation Commission Potocari has said. Frank Neervoort noted that the commission paid 860 victims’ ...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations has warned that millions in Syria will suffer if the Security Council fails to extend a resolution that allows humanitarian aid to be delivered to the rebel-held northwestern part of the country. The long-running aid operation that allows the use of the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the border […...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – “2023 should be Rohingya Home Year,” read a placard held up by a refugee boy as nearly 1,000 Rohingya people in a refugee camp in the southern border district of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh on Saturday held a rally, demanding a peaceful and dignified return to Rakhine State of their home […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – UN Human Rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called for a coordinated regional approach to protect thousands of Rohingya risking their lives on perilous sea voyages. “More than 2,400 Rohingya have sought to leave Bangladesh and Myanmar in 2022 alone, and I am deeply saddened that over 200 have reportedly lost their […]...
