Press TV - A military court in Myanmar will investigate the army's conduct during a crackdown on the persecuted Rohingya Muslims that forced thousands to flee to neighboring Bangladesh in August 2017. The army said in a statement on Monday that the court, comprising a major general and two colonels, will investigate the events in Rakhine state. "The ...

IRNA Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Tehran was ready to help restore security and stability in Myanmar so that displaced Rohingya people could return to their homes. Receiving credentials of Mukyu Ung, Myanmar's new Ambassador to Tehran, President Rouhani expressed hope that the efforts made by Myanmar's government would ...

Press TV - The UN says new government curbs on aid activities are affecting at least 50,000 peoplein Myanmars beleaguered Rakhine state, where persecuted Rohingya Muslims are mainly based. Earlier this month, the so-called Rakhine State government blocked non-governmental organizations and UNagencies from travelling to rural areas in northern and ...

Press TV - Myanmars authorities have intercepted a boat with 93 Rohingya Muslims who were fleeing apartheid conditions at internal displacement camps in Rakhine State and heading to Malaysia. Moe Zaw Latt, director of the government office in the southern coastal town of Dawei, said on Tuesday that Myanmars navy had seized the vessel and detained ...

IRNA - Former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki described the conditions of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as critical and concerning. Many Muslims in Rohingya have been annoyed and some of them were forced to move to Bangladesh, Mottaki said addressing a commission held on the sidelines of the 32nd International Islamic Unity Conference that ...

The Wall Street Journal | Farnaz Fassihi: U.N. investigators said on Wednesday that Myanmar has continued its campaign of genocide against Rohingya Muslims remaining in the country, as the Security Council for the first time ever was briefed by a human-rights envoy on a specific country. The evidence pointed to systematic crimes against ...

Press TV - Various human rights activists and observers have roundly denounced Myanmars decision to appoint a commission of inquiry into widespread human rights abuses perpetrated with the states own backing and with the militarys direct participation against the Rohingya Muslim community. The Myanmarese government said on Monday that it had ...

Press TV - An international group of medical experts says evidence collected from Rohingya Muslims' accounts proves that the highly-persecuted minority is subjected to systematic massacre and rape in Myanmar. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said in a report on Friday that the refugees accounts of being shot, hacked and injured by explosives were ...

Iranian Diplomacy- Rohingya Lawyer recently awarded the $1.1m Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity says his people are under serious discrimination just because they are Muslims, Iranian Diplomacys correspondent in Yerevan reports. This years $1.1m Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity has been awarded to a Rohingya Lawyer. Kyaw Hla Aung was selected ...

Press TV - An award-winning lawyer says the stateless Rohingya Muslims must be recognized as citizens of Myanmar so that they can safely stay in the country instead of fleeing abroad. Kyaw Hla Aung, who has worked to promote the rights of the persecuted minority, demanded in an interview on Sunday that the Rohingya be given identity documents. "We ...

Press TV- Myanmar has detained dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees it claims voluntarily crossed the border back into their home country from Bangladesh over the last four months, pending a decision to pardon them before resettlement. A total of 58 Rohingya refugees have returned to Myanmar after they could no longer find it tenable to live in ...

Press TV - The UN Secretary General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocidesays all the evidence he has received shows that the Myanmar government tried to utterly destroy Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state. On Tuesday, Adama Dieng said that if the evidence recently presented to him was proven, it would "constitute the crime of genocide....

Tasnim Myanmars de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing went on trial during a popular court in Tehran for their support for an ethnic cleansing campaign underway against the countrys minority Rohingya Muslims. During the international symbolic court held at the Imam Sadeq (AS) University in the Iranian capital on ...

Press TV- The United Nations (UN) has called on Myanmar to grant aid agencies unhindered access to camps that have been built near the border with Bangladesh to house the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who face repatriation from Bangladesh. The Taung Pyo Letwe refugee camp, built by Myanmaroutside the town of Maungdaw in Rakhine ...

IRNA The situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is very serious, an Iranian diplomat said Sunday urging the global community to solve the crisis and remove the refugees' concerns. It is necessary that Myanmar, Bangladesh and the global community make an effort to solve the Rohingya crisis, Mohsen Mohammadi, Iran's Ambassador Extraordinary and ...

FNA- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that more than 60,000 Rohingya children remain nearly forgotten, trapped in appalling camps in central Rakhine where the shelters teeter on stilts above garbage and excrement. Partners have identified about 20 children separated from their families during the violence but estimate the total ...

Press TV - Myanmars de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has conspicuously avoided talking about reports of Rohingya Muslim women and girls being raped by military forces and Buddhist militia in the western Rakhine State during a recent meeting with a senior UN official. UN special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, raised the ...

IRNA Irans positive vote to the resolution on violation of human rights in Myanmar was registered at United Nations (UN) on Tuesday, FM spokesman said. Bahram Qasemi condemned brutal crimes by military forces against Muslims in Myanmar. Thanks to Irans principled foreign policies, its positive vote was registered today, he added. Commenting ...

MNA The office of the Permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to New York explained the reason for Irans abstention from voting on the resolution against Myanmar. The office of the Permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to New York issued a statement concerning Irans abstention from voting on the resolution ...

Press TV - The United Nations General Assembly has called on Myanmar to halt its military campaignagainst Rohingya Muslims. On Sunday, a resolution forwarded by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was adopted by a vote of 122 to 10 with 24 abstentions. It calls for Myanmar to grant aid workers access and to give Rohingya Muslims ...