The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By KPN News July 03, 2014 Buthidaung, Arakan State : Immigration officer from Buthidaung check-post at entry and exit point had sent eight Rohingyas to jail since last week, said Hamidullah, a driver who has been plying Maungdaw-Buthidaung route.The immigration officer arrested 29 Rohingyas who travelled with White Card to see their relatives at Buthidaung jail, 21 persons were released after taking kyat 500,000 per each and another eight persons -not able to pay the money- were sent to jail and their trial is going on, said Halim, a Human Rights Watchdog from Maungdaw. Besides, the immigration officers from Maungdaw exit and entry point at four miles gate are taking 1000 kyat who didn’t show “Form 4”, and issuing a token for travelling to Buthidaung. But, last week, the Buthidaung officer didn’t accept the token and arrested 29 Rohingyas with tokens, Halim said. The Rohingya community from Maungdaw and Buthidaung under Maungdaw district need to obtain “Form 4” to tra...

M.S. Anwar |   RvisionTV.com September 23, 2013 Buthidaung, Arakan - At around 11PM on 20 th   September 2013, a Rohingya prisoner passed away in Buthidaung prison due to the tortures by the jail authority and consequent diseases. “At around 11 PM on 20 th   September 2013, Yunoos S/o Kuilla Meah (Age 65) passed away in Buthidaung prison. He was one of the victims of the arbitrary mass-arrests by the joint forces of Military, Police, Hlun Htein (Security Force) and NaSaKa (the disbanded border security force) in the village of Nurullah of Baggona village tract, Southern Maung Daw, on 6 th   July 2012. He was inhumanely tortured by the jail authority to make him say that he had involved in (so-called) burning of Rakhines’ houses and kept in bad condtion. As a result, he was afflicted with pneumonia and body-swelling. He had repeatedly pleaded the jail authority to allow him to get access to medical treatment. The authority gave criminal disregards to his pl...

Source   DVB   11 February 2013 By Hanna Hindstrom Nearly 1,000 Muslim Rohingyas, including  women  and children as young as ten, remain incarcerated in northern Arakan state – accused of inciting sectarian clashes last year – where campaigners say they are subject to “pervasive” abuses and at least 68 people are believed to have died in custody. New  data  obtained by DVB shows that torture and violence, including the sexual exploitation of minors, is widespread throughout prisons in northern Arakan state, where at least 966 Rohingyas have been detained since November last year. At least 10 women and 72 children, aged between 10 and 15 years old, are understood to be among the prisoners. An estimated 1,600 Rohingyas were initially arrested in northern Arakan state after two bouts of sectarian clashes with local Buddhists, although many were later released after paying bribes “as high as 20 million kyats (USD$23,350)” to local officia...