#FreeAbulKalam
Bangladesh has arrested award-winning Rohingya photojournalist Abul Kalam for taking photos of Rohingya being forcibly deported to the uninhabitable & unstable island of Bhasan Char. Photojournalism is not a crime.
#FreeAbulKalam
Gratitude – and advice – to Malaysia from a Rohingya refugee
Published by ASIA TIMES I am a Rohingya refugee in Malaysia. In October 2014, human traffickers kidnapped me from outside the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. They covered my face and tied my hands and beat me before putting me on a boat from which I was sold to other traffickers in Thailand. I was held captive in a trafficking camp for 13 days in southern Thailand. I was not given food for five days. I obtained freedom when Thai police rescued 134 Rohingya people in Ranong province. I was kept by the police in an immigration detention center (IDC). After I was declared a victim of human trafficking, I was sent to an IDC shelter in Songkhla, Thailand. I escaped from that facility because there was a Rohingya boy who was beaten by shelter officers. After a month, however, I was arrested again and sold again to traffickers. I was kept in a human-trafficking camp in Penang, Malaysia, until I managed to run away. Finally, in Malaysia, the United N
