Human Rights Watch: Rohingya Arrested in Myanmar Just for Traveling
January 08, 2021
January 08, 2021
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, government restrictions on movement in Myanmar have been widespread, but certain people have been more affected than others. On January 6, Myanmar police detained 99 ethnic Rohingya in Yangon for traveling without documentation in the country where they were born and lived all their lives.
The Rohingya - mostly women as well as children reportedly as young as 5 years o . . .
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, government restrictions on movement in Myanmar have been widespread, but certain people have been more affected than others. On January 6, Myanmar police detained 99 ethnic Rohingya in Yangon for traveling without documentation in the country where they were born and lived all their lives.
The Rohingya - mostly women as well as children reportedly as young as 5 years o . . .