By Joshua Carroll October 11, 2014 Dozens of men from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority have been arrested and tortured because of alleged ties to a militant Islamic organization, according to a rights group. The Arakan Project, a Thailand-based group that documents abuses against the Rohingya, says one man has been tortured to death in Myanmar’s far north-west, near the border with Bangladesh. Authorities have rounded up at least 58 men in the last two weeks from several villages in the north of Rakhine state, according to figures compiled by the Arakan Project and seen by the Anadolu Agency . The wife of the dead man told the group she was forced to sign a statement that her husband died of natural causes. Last month, al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri announced plans to expand his terror network to include Myanmar. The recently arrested Rohingya men were accused of having ties to a group called the Rohingya Solidarity Organization, or RSO.