‘This rejection is discriminatory and not unrelated to the ongoing genocide of Rohingya,’ said a Fortify Rights advocacy group member.

Malaysian authorities launch a search for two dozen persecuted Rohingya refugees who went missing while attempting to swim to shore from a boat off the resort island of Langkawi.

Amnesty International calls on Malaysia to withdraw the caning sentences recently given to a group of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

Myanmar has not cooperated with the Human Rights Council-established Fact-Finding Mission.

A court martial probing atrocities against persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar finds a mere three military officers guilty.

UN warns of 'intensified fighting' between the army and Buddhist militants in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Nearly 100 Rohingya from Myanmar, including 30 children, have been rescued from a rickety wooden boat off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island.

The UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has accused the country’s military of committing “ongoing” crimes against humanity.

Coastguard officials in Bangladesh say they have rescued nearly 400 members of the ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority group aboard a ship that had been marooned at sea for weeks, adding that more than two dozen of them have lost their lives as a result of starvation.

Malaysian authorities say they have intercepted a fishing boat carrying more than 200 refugees, believed to be members of the prosecuted ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims.