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  • Bangladesh: Fresh Attempt to Repatriate Thousands of Rohingya Collapses0

    Abdur Rahman and Sharif Khiam Teknaf, Bangladesh and Dhaka 2019-08-22 AP A well-publicized second attempt to return thousands of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar collapsed on Thursday, with the U.N. refugee agency and Bangladeshi officials saying that none of the 3,450 people cleared for repatriation were willing to go back. UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency,

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  • Halt Rohingya Repatriation, Human Rights Groups Say0

    Sunil Barua and Jesmin Papri Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and Dhaka 2019-08-21 AFP Human rights groups urged Bangladesh and Myanmar on Wednesday to stop a second attempt to repatriate thousands of stateless Rohingya refugees until their return is “safe, voluntary and dignified.” Last week, Bangladeshi officials told reporters that they were working with Myanmar to repatriate

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  • Officials: Myanmar, Bangladesh Working to Repatriate 3,450 Rohingya Refugees0

    Sunil Barua and Jesmin Papri Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and Dhaka 2019-08-16 Bangladesh and Myanmar said Friday they were working on the first repatriation of Rohingya refugees since members of the ethnic minority fled a massive military crackdown in Rakhine state two years ago, amid confusion over how the process would unfold. “Myanmar has given clearance

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  • Bangladesh Garment Workers Face Long Workdays, Higher Living Cost0

    By Jesmin Papri on Aug 15, 2019 04:55 pm Workers in the industry that powers Bangladesh’s economy face a soaring cost of living and long workdays, say union leaders for the garment sector and its 3.5 million employees. Workers have not benefited from a wage hike issued late last year as they have seen prices

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  • Bangladesh Gives Myanmar 25,000 Rohingya Names for Potential Repatriation0

    Sunil Barua and Kamran Reza Chowdhury Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and Dhaka 2019-07-29 Bangladesh on Monday handed Myanmar a fresh list of 25,000 Rohingya for potential repatriation, after a high-level delegation from Naypyidaw visited Rohingya refugee camps and explained that full citizenship for the stateless minority was not an option. Myint Thu, Myanmar’s permanent secretary for

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  • Bangladesh’s Ex-Chief Justice Confirms Bid for Political Asylum in Canada0

    By Roni Toldanes on Jul 26, 2019 Former Bangladeshi Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said Friday he had requested political asylum in Canada, as officials in Dhaka vowed to pursue corruption charges against him and rejected his claims that he was forced to go into exile. Sinha, 68, left Bangladesh in October 2017, alleging he

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  • Police: Bangladeshi Mobs Kill 8 People over Child-Abduction Rumors0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Jul 24, 2019 At least eight Bangladeshis have been killed in vigilante mob attacks during the past two weeks after rumors spread on social media about children being abducted, police said Wednesday as they announced a public awareness campaign to contain the violence. None of the victims of the lynchings

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  • Bangladeshi Activist Clarifies Controversial White House Remarks0

    By Pulack Ghatack and Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Jul 22, 2019 A woman who made comments during a White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump about the plight of religious minorities in Bangladesh has clarified her statements after Dhaka condemned them as “blatant lies.” Priya Biswas Saha’s remarks on July 17 that 37 million

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  • Bangladesh Ex-Chief Justice Rejects Corruption Charges0

    By Roni Toldanes on Jul 11, 2019 Former Bangladeshi Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said Thursday he would not defend himself against corruption charges filed by the government, saying he committed no wrong and that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s administration was misusing the law. The nation’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against

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  • UN Rapporteur: ‘Myanmar Going Down a Dark Path Now’0

    By Special to BenarNews on Jun 28, 2019 01:05 am Yanghee Lee, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, has been an outspoken critic of the country’s powerful military and its brutal crackdowns on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state in 2016 and 2017, which caused more than 740,000 people from the stateless minority

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  • Missing Bangladeshi Reappears; Politically Connected Family Blames Authorities0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Jun 21, 2019 Bangladeshi schoolteacher Syed Iftekhar Alam Sourav was relatively unknown until he disappeared for 11 days, but he was luckier than many other people believed by human rights groups to have vanished in Bangladesh through enforced disappearances in recent years. This member of a politically influential family and

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  • Bangladesh Blocks Website after it Reported on Controversial Ad0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on May 22, 2019 A front-page ad that ran in Bangladesh’s major newspapers last week and contained controversial statements about how to identify “radical Muslims” has raised questions about who paid for it and whether coverage of the matter led the government to block a popular online news site. The Bangladesh

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  • Bangladesh, India Share Intelligence on Potential Militant Attacks0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on May 20, 2019 Bangladeshi authorities are taking action to stop potential militant attacks in the country and in neighboring India after receiving intelligence information from New Delhi, the home minister said Monday. The country’s border guard is on alert to be vigilant against any cross-border attack by the banned militant

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  • Bangladesh Journalists Protest Order Limiting Courtroom Reporting0

    Pulack Ghatack Dhaka 2019-05-17 Bangladeshi journalists asked the nation’s top court on Friday to withdraw its order prohibiting them from reporting details of trials that are in progress. The Supreme Court registrar’s office issued the order, also known as a circular, after online and television news reports divulged details of a recent High Court ruling,

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