Bangladesh: Halt ‘Pilot’ Plan to Return Rohingya

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees shout slogans against repatriation at Unchiprang camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 15, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Dar Yasin (Bangkok) – Bangladesh authorities should suspend plans to send Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, where their lives and liberty would be at grave risk, Human Rights Watch said today. Rohingya told Human Rights Watch that they were lied to, deceived, or otherwise coerced by Bangladesh administrators into meeting with a recent delegation of Myanmar junta officials as part of a “pilot repatriation” effort to return about 1,000…

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