Boat adrift at sea for weeks carrying Rohingya refugees reaches Indonesia’s Aceh
The boat which reached Aceh, Indonesia on Monday afternoon had over 180 ethnic Rohingya men, women and children in it.
The boat which reached Aceh, Indonesia on Monday afternoon had over 180 ethnic Rohingya men, women and children in it.
When the Myanmar military began a clearance operation against them in 2017, several members of the community were forced to flee.
Contending before a bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde, Advocate Prashant Bhushan said that that the detained Rohingyas may be deported to Myanmar which is currently under Army's control and also seeing violence.
While human rights groups acknowledge there are criminal elements among some of the Rohingya refugees, they have urged authorities to thoroughly investigate such cases.
The Dhaka Tribune said the ship was packed with nearly 500 Rohingya.
Mahecic said that conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine were not conducive for safe dignified and sustainable return of stateless Rohingya refugees.
But the Myanmar government says it was fighting militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army and was not targeting civilians.
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, who have been held in Yangon's Insein prison since their arrest in December, were charged with violating the Official Secrets Act, a draconian British colonial-era law which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years.
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