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Myanmar appoints panel to probe Rohingya abuses
The two local members are lawyer Mya Thein and Aung Tun Thet, an economist and former UN official.
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Black hoods, kneeling, no sleep: Reuters reporter details Myanmar custody
The 28-year-old reporter and his colleague Wa Lone, 32, face charges brought under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, in a case seen as a test of press freedom in Myanmar.
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Myanmar police focused interrogation on Rohingya story - Reuters journalist
In hours of testimony, delivered over two days before a court in Yangon, Wa Lone also described what he called the police “trap” to arrest him.
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Myanmar violated UN child rights pact in Rohingya crackdown, experts find
Children make up around half of the more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh since the start of a military crackdown last August.
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Myanmar police focused interrogation on Rohingya story: Reuters journalist
The killings took place during a military crackdown that United Nations agencies say led to more than 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh last year.
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At least 15 dead after landslide at Myanmar jade mine
Informal jade scavengers, or hand-pickers, are frequently caught up in landslides in the poorly regulated mining area.
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Myanmar court files secrets act charges against Reuters reporters
Yangon district judge Ye Lwin charged reporters Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, with breaching the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
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Myanmar court to hear arguments on charging jailed Reuters reporters
The pre-trial hearings, which began in January, finished last month. The two reporters have been denied bail and have been held in Yangon’s Insein jail since being arrested in December.
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'Top Myanmar military officers should be tried for crimes against humanity'
Amnesty said these people should face justice “for their command responsibility, their direct responsibility, or both.”
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UN rights boss takes aim at US migration policy, China, Myanmar
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein delivered his final speech to the UN Human Rights Council before his term in office ends.
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Witness no-show as Reuters reporters mark six months in Myanmar detention
The police major conducted the inquiry after the journalists were arrested on 12 December. They have now spent six months in detention.
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Rohingya refugees fish in troubled waters to earn living in Bangladesh
They are among nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled a military crackdown, the United Nations and human rights groups say.
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Myanmar says willing to take back all Rohingya refugees
Since August 2017, about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a military crackdown in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, many reporting killings, rape and arson on a large scale, UN and other aid organisations have said.
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Myanmar police witness says searched Reuters reporters' phones without warrant
The reporters have told relatives they were arrested almost immediately after being handed some rolled up papers at a restaurant in northern Yangon by two policemen.
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Insurgents in Myanmar kill 19 in attack near China border
Myanmar’s military frequently clashes with several groups who say they are fighting for greater autonomy for ethnic minorities in the area.
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UN Security Council pushes Myanmar on accountability over Rohingya
Despite initial resistance by China to the Security Council pressing Myanmar on accountability, the 15-member body reached consensus agreement on the British-drafted statement.
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Myanmar policeman who said Reuters reporters were framed details sting operation
At the time of their arrest in December, the reporters had been working on an investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in a village in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
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Myanmar court accepts testimony of policeman who said Reuters reporters framed
Later on Wednesday Mark Field, a junior British foreign minister, called again on authorities in Myanmar to halt a “gross perversion” of press freedom.
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Myanmar military assures UN of ‘harsh’ action on sexual assault
UN and rights groups say nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh after a military crackdown launched in Rakhine State in August.
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UN Security Council puts spotlight on Rohingya refugee crisis
Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in January to complete a voluntary repatriation of the refugees within two years
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Myanmar activists urge president to release jailed Reuters journalists
A letter, signed by 163 civil society groups, also asked newly-elected Myanmar President Win Myint to 'seek justice and truth'.
