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By KPN July 05, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State : District police officer U Shwe Than issued an order to arrest a drug dealer from Bomuu para (village), under block number 4 of Maungdaw, but the police arrested a driver of drug dealer on July 4, at about 12:00 noon, said Hasu Meah, an elder of the village.Mohamed Salam is the person -  a closed drug partner of District police officer and a well-known drug dealer in Maungdaw who is working with high level officers from Maungdaw, Hasu said. On that day, the police personnel along with two block administration officers went to Salam home and arrested Salam’s driver Faisal only. The police neither entered the home nor searched the home, just arrested the driver Faisal and showed a mobile phone with two Bangladeshi Sim cards, according to a village administration officer member of block #2. Salam’s driver Faisal was  released  within an hours after giving 700,000 Kyat, the member said. Two block administration officers – Yous

By International Federation for Human Rights Media Release Phuketwan.com  July 5, 2014 BANGKOK : The Burmese Government must end the prosecution of Rohingya human rights defender Kyaw Hla Aung and immediately release him, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint program, and the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-Burma) said today. Lawyer U Kyaw Hla Aung, an Activist for Peaceful Co-existence On July 7, 2014, Kyaw Hla Aung, a prominent human rights lawyer, will appear before the Sittwe District Court to face various charges, including ''rioting and being armed with deadly weapons'' (Article 148 of theCriminal Code) and ''injuring a civil servant, interfering with his official duties'' (Article 333 of the Criminal Code). ''The ongoing detention of Kyaw Hla Aung is symptomatic of the Burmese Government's relentless persecution of Rohingya and its misguided policies in Ara