Press TV- Amnesty International has strongly denounced the first admission by Myanmar's military that its soldiers executed Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, saying it is just the "tip of the iceberg".
James Gomez, Amnestys regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said on Thursday that "this grisly admission is a sharp departure ...
Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged Muslim countries to take practical measures to end the inhuman crackdown on the persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Myanmars troubled Rakhine State.
Zarif made the call in separate phone conversation on Monday with his Turkish, Malaysian and Indonesian counterparts Mevlut Cavusoglu,...
Press TV - India is planning to deport tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims it says are living in the country illegally.
A government spokesman said on Friday that New Delhi was in talks with Bangladesh and Myanmar about its plan to deport around 40,000 Rohingya Muslims.
These things are being discussed at [the] diplomatic level with both ...
Press TV- Three Muslims have been indicted by Myanmars authorities for holding Ramadan prayers in the street where the local school they used to worship in for decades was closed by a nationalist mob.
Police chargedthe three men after nearly 50 Muslims gathered to pray on Wednesday on a road in Yangons Thaketa township, the site of one of an ...
Press TV- Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other rights groups have accused Myanmar of trying to cover up abuses perpetrated by the countrys government forces against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
Criticism poured in on Wednesday after a government-led commission in Myanmar released a report that flatly dismissed allegations ...
Tasnim A heartbreaking picture purporting to show a dead Rohingya child from Myanmar has evoked memories of Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi who was found washed up on a Turkish coast after drowning in the Mediterranean sea in 2015.
Face down in the mud, a baby boy lies still after washing up on a river bank.
His name is Mohammed Shohayet, a 16-month-...
Press TV- Several Western countries have called on Myanmar's government to allow humanitarian aid deliveries to Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
The aid deliveries are seemingly approved by top government officials in the capital, Naypyidaw, diplomats from 14 countries including France, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey and the ...
Alwaght- Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are facing ethnic cleansing and genocide of unprecedented proportions in the Buddhist country while the world watches indifferently.
A glance at the history of Rohingya Muslims is necessary to understand the current persecution they are facing in Myanmar also known as Burma.
Arakan or Rakhine state, formerly ...
An Iranian MP says the Islamic Republic plans to set up a camp in Myanmar to help the efforts to provide relief to the countrys Rohingya Muslims.
On Saturday, Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Deputy Chairman Mansour Haqiqatpour said agreements have been reached with senior Myanmar officials to set up a camp in Rakhine ...
The Iranian Red CrescentSociety (IRCS) is to send 30 tons of humanitarian aid to the homeless Rohingya Muslim refugees in Myanmar.
The aid consignment includes 15 tons of foodstuff and 15 tons of tents, blankets and utensils, Mahmoud Mozaffar, an IRCS official, said on Saturday.
He added that a relief team would also be dispatched to Myanmar to distribute ...
An Iranian parliamentary delegation will soon visit Myanmar to examine the latest situation of the ethnic Rohingya Muslims and find out ways to help the minority in the Southeast Asian country.
The representatives of Irans Foreign Ministry, Imam Khomeini's Relief Committee and the Iranian Red Crescent Society will accompany the lawmakers in their ...
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