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TEHRAN, June 13 - An Iranian Tawasheeh (religious singing) group performed Tawasheeh programs in Myanmar.
News ID: 24273    Publish Date : 2018/06/13

TEHRAN, May 30 - A group of lawyers working on behalf of hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh is pushing for Myanmar’s military to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for widespread violence against the Muslims.
News ID: 23614    Publish Date : 2018/05/30

TEHRAN, May 28 -Myanmar has detained dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees it claims voluntarily crossed the border back into their home country from Bangladesh over the last four months, pending a decision to “pardon” them before resettlement.
News ID: 23501    Publish Date : 2018/05/28

TEHRAN, May 28 - Myanmar’s president on Monday nominated 80-year-old Soe Win, a well-known financial professional, as the next finance minister after the previous one resigned, amid reports he was being investigated over graft accusations.
News ID: 23479    Publish Date : 2018/05/28

TEHRAN, May 22 -A British parliamentary committee says the government must support efforts to refer Myanmar’s government to the international criminal court over evidence of state-sanctioned "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state.
News ID: 23255    Publish Date : 2018/05/22

TEHRAN, May 14 - Myanmar police said on Monday they would charge 17 organizers of an anti-war protest on the weekend that degenerated into scuffles and fistfights, and raised new concern about freedom of speech.
News ID: 22921    Publish Date : 2018/05/14

TEHRAN, May 10 - The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on Myanmar’s government to hold accountable the perpetrators of widespread violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Buddhist-majority country’s northwest over the past year and a half.
News ID: 22735    Publish Date : 2018/05/10

TEHRAN, May 1 - A UN Security Council envoy says Myanmar must conduct a "proper investigation" into alleged atrocities against the persecuted Rohingya Muslims in northwestern state of Rakhine.
News ID: 22376    Publish Date : 2018/05/01

Thousands of people have staged a massive rally in Myanmar's northern Kachin state to demand humanitarian access for villagers who have been caught in fighting between the army and an ethnic armed group in the war-torn region.
News ID: 22332    Publish Date : 2018/04/30

TEHRAN, April 30 - A team of UN Security Council envoys has visited Rohingya Muslim refugees at their camps in the no man’s land between Bangladesh and Myanmar, listening to the horrifying experiences they have been through at the hands of the Myanmar military.
News ID: 22294    Publish Date : 2018/04/30

TEHRAN, April 15 -Britain’s foreign minister and United Nations human rights rapporteurs separately called on Thursday for the release of two Reuters reporters detained in Myanmar, after a judge rejected a request for their case to be dismissed.
News ID: 21729    Publish Date : 2018/04/15

TEHRAN, April 08 -Myanmar is not ready for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees, said the most senior United Nations official to visit the country this year, after Myanmar was accused of instigating ethnic cleansing and driving nearly 700,000 Muslims to Bangladesh.
News ID: 21424    Publish Date : 2018/04/08

TEHRAN, April 07 -Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar asked a judge on Wednesday to dismiss the case against them, arguing there was insufficient evidence to support charges of obtaining secret government papers.
News ID: 21377    Publish Date : 2018/04/07

TEHRAN, March 28 - Myanmar’s parliament on Wednesday picked a close ally of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the country’s new president, a move unlikely to affect a delicate balance of power in a country where the army has retained a large political role.
News ID: 21039    Publish Date : 2018/03/28

TEHRAN, March 21 - Myanmar's civilian president, Htin Kyaw, has resigned with immediate effect "in order to take rest from the current duties and responsibilities", his office says.
News ID: 20854    Publish Date : 2018/03/21

TEHRAN, March 18 - Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been grilled by world leaders over her inaction regarding the persecution of the minority Rohingya Muslims in her country.
News ID: 20750    Publish Date : 2018/03/18

TEHRAN, March 14 - United Nations human rights experts have slammed the online social media platform Facebook for allowing the incitement of violence against Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhists-majority country of Myanmar.
News ID: 20522    Publish Date : 2018/03/14

TEHRAN, March 9 - The United Nations human rights chief says Myanmar is making “serial denials” of the state-sponsored abuses carried out against Rohingya Muslims, shortly after a Myanmarese official demanded evidence of alleged genocide.
News ID: 20318    Publish Date : 2018/03/09

TEHRAN, March 7 - The United Nations human rights chief said on Wednesday that he strongly suspected that "acts of genocide" may have taken place against Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state since August.
News ID: 20246    Publish Date : 2018/03/07

TEHRAN, March 6 - Myanmar’s “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya Muslims was continuing, a senior U.N. human rights official said on Tuesday, more than six months after insurgent attacks sparked a security response that has driven nearly 700,000 people into Bangladesh.
News ID: 20216    Publish Date : 2018/03/06