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TEHRAN (defapress)- A human rights investigator said humanitarian conditions in camps hosting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are set to worsen in the next few months, while also raising concerns about a plan to repatriate the fleeing minority back to Myanmar.
News ID: 68220 Publish Date : 2018/01/22
TEHRAN (defapress) - The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders says at least 6,700 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority group were killed in state-sponsored violence in Myanmar only in a period of one month beginning on August 25.
News ID: 67486 Publish Date : 2017/12/14
TEHRAN (defapress)- UN refugee agency said Rohingya refugees continue to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh even though both countries set up a timetable last month to allow them to start to return home.
News ID: 67340 Publish Date : 2017/12/08
TEHRAN (defapress) - The EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Monday hailed "extremely encouraging" talks with Aung San Suu Kyi on the Rohingya crisis, welcoming steps towards the repatriation of Muslims driven from Myanmar into Bangladesh.
News ID: 67063 Publish Date : 2017/11/20
TEHRAN (defapress) - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Myanmar's army chief Thursday to help end the violence in Rakhine state that has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee.
News ID: 66702 Publish Date : 2017/10/27
TEHRAN (defapress) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei allocated a total of 10 billion rials (about $300,000) to the assistance for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as some international human rights bodies have accused Myanmar's government of crimes against humanity.
News ID: 66519 Publish Date : 2017/10/18
TEHRAN (defapress) - Hungry, destitute and scared, thousands of new Rohingya refugees crossed the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar early on Monday, Reuters witnesses said, fleeing attacks by Buddhist mobs and hunger that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing.
News ID: 66452 Publish Date : 2017/10/16
TEHRAN (defapress) - Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government would continue to support nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims who have fled neighboring Myanmar to escape violence.
News ID: 66186 Publish Date : 2017/10/07
TEHRAN (defapress) – Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi called on the country’s Foreign Ministry to adopt whatever diplomatic approaches it can to force the government of Myanmar to stop the persecution of Muslim people in the Buddhist-majority country.
News ID: 66158 Publish Date : 2017/10/05
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on the government of Myanmar to end violence against the Rohingya Muslims, warning that disregard for the violation of the basic rights of Muslim people in Myanmar would foment extremism and destabilize the whole region.
News ID: 65990 Publish Date : 2017/09/20
TEHRAN (defapress) - A rights group has called for targeted sanctions and an arms embargo against the Myanmar military in response to an offensive that has sent 410,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing.
News ID: 65967 Publish Date : 2017/09/18
TEHRAN (defapress) – An Iranian delegation, headed by FM Rahmipour, made a visit to refugee camp of Rohingya Muslims in border areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
News ID: 65957 Publish Date : 2017/09/17
TEHRAN (defapress)- The UN Security Council is set to hold a meeting to discuss the deteriorating situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, a day after the world body’s rights chief voiced the alarm about the ongoing crimes against the minority group which he described as an example of “ethnic cleansing.”
News ID: 65914 Publish Date : 2017/09/12
TEHRAN (defapress) – In a statement issued on Saturday, Iranian Leader's senior adviser Ali Akbar Velayati strongly condemned the persecution of Myanmar’s Muslim minority group, pointing to Israel's role behind the crisis.
News ID: 65886 Publish Date : 2017/09/10
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) considers supporting the oppressed Myanmar Muslims historic and inevitable responsibility of all nations.
News ID: 65872 Publish Date : 2017/09/08
