Shafiur
@rohingyarefugee.news
Journalist & Doc maker. RTs ≠ endorsement. Vice-Chair, NUJ, Cambridge, UK. Columnist:
DVB English & Dhaka Tribune | Newsletter: https://rohingyarefugee.news | The Diplomat: https://thediplomat.com/authors/shafiur-rahman/
DVB English & Dhaka Tribune | Newsletter: https://rohingyarefugee.news | The Diplomat: https://thediplomat.com/authors/shafiur-rahman/
CiC system in Bhasan Char
Refugees describe beatings of minors and elderly people, arbitrary arrests, and mobile-court sentences with no due process. Some families fled the island out of fear.
Interrogations allegedly involved electric wires. #Rohingya
www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/long...
Refugees describe beatings of minors and elderly people, arbitrary arrests, and mobile-court sentences with no due process. Some families fled the island out of fear.
Interrogations allegedly involved electric wires. #Rohingya
www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/long...
Who rules at the Rohingya camps
When the Yunus government assumed office, it moved swiftly to reassess key aspects of Bangladesh’s Rohingya policy. There have been conferences with diplomats and senior officials, including a h...
www.dhakatribune.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
CiC system in Bhasan Char
Refugees describe beatings of minors and elderly people, arbitrary arrests, and mobile-court sentences with no due process. Some families fled the island out of fear.
Interrogations allegedly involved electric wires. #Rohingya
www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/long...
Refugees describe beatings of minors and elderly people, arbitrary arrests, and mobile-court sentences with no due process. Some families fled the island out of fear.
Interrogations allegedly involved electric wires. #Rohingya
www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/long...
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🏆 Thank you, Greta, for delivering our @rightlivelihood.org acceptance speech, and for your solidarity and courage.
We accept this award in honour of the courageous ppl of Myanmar, who've stood against the junta with unyielding strength, dignity and immense sacrifice.
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We accept this award in honour of the courageous ppl of Myanmar, who've stood against the junta with unyielding strength, dignity and immense sacrifice.
Watch on FB 👉🏽 buff.ly/l4Ov7qX
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🏆 Thank you, Greta, for delivering our @rightlivelihood.org acceptance speech, and for your solidarity and courage.
We accept this award in honour of the courageous ppl of Myanmar, who've stood against the junta with unyielding strength, dignity and immense sacrifice.
Watch on FB 👉🏽 buff.ly/l4Ov7qX
We accept this award in honour of the courageous ppl of Myanmar, who've stood against the junta with unyielding strength, dignity and immense sacrifice.
Watch on FB 👉🏽 buff.ly/l4Ov7qX
I explore how humanitarian reporting on the Rohingya often centres crisis while missing the deeper systems that produce it.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I explore how humanitarian reporting on the Rohingya often centres crisis while missing the deeper systems that produce it.
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A powerful reflection from Dr Ambia Parveen on the UN’s ruling in the case of Rohingya community leader Dil Mohammed.
She reminds us that his disappearance has left deep scars on the community and that justice now depends on Bangladesh implementing the WGAD recommendations without delay.
She reminds us that his disappearance has left deep scars on the community and that justice now depends on Bangladesh implementing the WGAD recommendations without delay.
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A powerful reflection from Dr Ambia Parveen on the UN’s ruling in the case of Rohingya community leader Dil Mohammed.
She reminds us that his disappearance has left deep scars on the community and that justice now depends on Bangladesh implementing the WGAD recommendations without delay.
She reminds us that his disappearance has left deep scars on the community and that justice now depends on Bangladesh implementing the WGAD recommendations without delay.
United Council of Rohang was sold as representation. Instead, it is becoming an instrument of control. Two new cases make that clear. Read this on Rohingya Refugee News:
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/the-united...
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/the-united...
The United Council of Rohang's New Role in the Rohingya camps
Reinforcing RRRC control, suppressing community voices, and reshaping Rohingya representation in Cox’s Bazar.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
United Council of Rohang was sold as representation. Instead, it is becoming an instrument of control. Two new cases make that clear. Read this on Rohingya Refugee News:
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/the-united...
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/the-united...
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Haydee Dijkstal secures UN finding of #arbitrary detention & #enforceddisappearance against #Bangladesh for ongoing detention of Mr Dil Mohammed, a #refugee from Myanmar and prominent #Rohingya community leader to the refugee encampment in ‘No Mans Land'
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Haydee Dijkstal secures UN finding of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance for Rohingya community leader detained in Bangladesh
During its 103rd Session in August 2025, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered the detention of Mr Dil Mohammed, a refugee from Myanmar who
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November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Haydee Dijkstal secures UN finding of #arbitrary detention & #enforceddisappearance against #Bangladesh for ongoing detention of Mr Dil Mohammed, a #refugee from Myanmar and prominent #Rohingya community leader to the refugee encampment in ‘No Mans Land'
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Dil Mohammed has been detained in Bangladesh since January 2023. The WGAD just ruled that his incarceration “lacks any legal basis and is thus arbitrary.”
UN Declares Detention of Rohingya Leader Arbitrary
Dil Mohammed has been detained in Bangladesh since January 2023. The WGAD just ruled that his incarceration “lacks any legal basis and is thus arbitrary.”
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November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Dil Mohammed has been detained in Bangladesh since January 2023. The WGAD just ruled that his incarceration “lacks any legal basis and is thus arbitrary.”
UN has ruled that Bangladesh’s detention of Zero Point #Rohingya leader Dil Mohammed is arbitrary and unlawful and has orderred his immediate release, compensation, and an independent investigation.
My latest for The Diplomat is now out. #Myanmar
thediplomat.com/2025/11/un-d...
My latest for The Diplomat is now out. #Myanmar
thediplomat.com/2025/11/un-d...
UN Declares Detention of Rohingya Leader Arbitrary
Dil Mohammed has been detained in Bangladesh since January 2023. The WGAD just ruled that his incarceration “lacks any legal basis and is thus arbitrary.”
thediplomat.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
UN has ruled that Bangladesh’s detention of Zero Point #Rohingya leader Dil Mohammed is arbitrary and unlawful and has orderred his immediate release, compensation, and an independent investigation.
My latest for The Diplomat is now out. #Myanmar
thediplomat.com/2025/11/un-d...
My latest for The Diplomat is now out. #Myanmar
thediplomat.com/2025/11/un-d...
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The UN has ruled that Rohingya community leader Dil Mohammed is being arbitrarily detained in Bangladesh and has called for his immediate release, compensation, and an independent investigation.
This is the first UN decision of its kind regarding a Rohingya leader detained inside Bangladesh.
The UN has ruled that Rohingya community leader Dil Mohammed is being arbitrarily detained in Bangladesh and has called for his immediate release, compensation, and an independent investigation.
This is the first UN decision of its kind regarding a Rohingya leader detained inside Bangladesh.
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The UN has ruled that Rohingya community leader Dil Mohammed is being arbitrarily detained in Bangladesh and has called for his immediate release, compensation, and an independent investigation.
This is the first UN decision of its kind regarding a Rohingya leader detained inside Bangladesh.
The UN has ruled that Rohingya community leader Dil Mohammed is being arbitrarily detained in Bangladesh and has called for his immediate release, compensation, and an independent investigation.
This is the first UN decision of its kind regarding a Rohingya leader detained inside Bangladesh.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that the detention of Rohingya leader Dil Mohammed is unlawful.
He was the former No Man’s Land community spokesperson & abducted in January 2023 and held in prolonged solitary confinement. His international counsel, Haydee Dijkstal, responds
He was the former No Man’s Land community spokesperson & abducted in January 2023 and held in prolonged solitary confinement. His international counsel, Haydee Dijkstal, responds
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that the detention of Rohingya leader Dil Mohammed is unlawful.
He was the former No Man’s Land community spokesperson & abducted in January 2023 and held in prolonged solitary confinement. His international counsel, Haydee Dijkstal, responds
He was the former No Man’s Land community spokesperson & abducted in January 2023 and held in prolonged solitary confinement. His international counsel, Haydee Dijkstal, responds
UN has ruled Bangladesh’s detention of Rohingya leader Dil Mohammed unlawful: enforced disappearance, solitary confinement, no legal basis.
Orders: immediate release, compensation, investigation + public dissemination.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/un-rebukes...
Orders: immediate release, compensation, investigation + public dissemination.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/un-rebukes...
UN Finds Bangladesh Disappeared and Unlawfully Detained Dil Mohammed
From No Man’s Land to Black Sites
www.rohingyarefugee.news
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
UN has ruled Bangladesh’s detention of Rohingya leader Dil Mohammed unlawful: enforced disappearance, solitary confinement, no legal basis.
Orders: immediate release, compensation, investigation + public dissemination.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/un-rebukes...
Orders: immediate release, compensation, investigation + public dissemination.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/un-rebukes...
SUHAKAM, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, has condemned plans to charge Rohingya survivors of the recent Langkawi shipwreck under Malaysia’s Immigration Act. Survivors are stateless people fleeing persecution. Should be treated as victims in need of protection, not as criminals.
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
SUHAKAM, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, has condemned plans to charge Rohingya survivors of the recent Langkawi shipwreck under Malaysia’s Immigration Act. Survivors are stateless people fleeing persecution. Should be treated as victims in need of protection, not as criminals.
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Short dispatches. Verified sources. Early reporting.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I’ve launched a WhatsApp channel for Rohingya Refugee News - refugee camp governance, trafficking routes, aid politics, Myanmar developments.
Short dispatches. Verified sources. Early reporting.
🔗 whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
Short dispatches. Verified sources. Early reporting.
🔗 whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
A lot of Malaysian coverage of the Langkawi boat deaths centres “transnational syndicates”, Interpol & regional criminal networks.
Criminality flourishes because safe routes are closed. Boats are not a failure of policing - they are a failure of policy.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/what-malay...
Criminality flourishes because safe routes are closed. Boats are not a failure of policing - they are a failure of policy.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/what-malay...
What Malaysia Isn’t Asking About Rohingya Boat Deaths
A short breakdown of how media frames tragedy as crime while erasing state responsibility.
www.rohingyarefugee.news
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A lot of Malaysian coverage of the Langkawi boat deaths centres “transnational syndicates”, Interpol & regional criminal networks.
Criminality flourishes because safe routes are closed. Boats are not a failure of policing - they are a failure of policy.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/what-malay...
Criminality flourishes because safe routes are closed. Boats are not a failure of policing - they are a failure of policy.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/what-malay...
Update on #Rohingya No Man's Land Dil Mohammed
He has been moved to Cumilla prison. Conditions are extremely harsh. He is shackled. His family is deeply worried about his wellbeing. After more than 2 years in custody, four months in an Aynaghor, concerns about his treatment and health are mounting.
He has been moved to Cumilla prison. Conditions are extremely harsh. He is shackled. His family is deeply worried about his wellbeing. After more than 2 years in custody, four months in an Aynaghor, concerns about his treatment and health are mounting.
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Update on #Rohingya No Man's Land Dil Mohammed
He has been moved to Cumilla prison. Conditions are extremely harsh. He is shackled. His family is deeply worried about his wellbeing. After more than 2 years in custody, four months in an Aynaghor, concerns about his treatment and health are mounting.
He has been moved to Cumilla prison. Conditions are extremely harsh. He is shackled. His family is deeply worried about his wellbeing. After more than 2 years in custody, four months in an Aynaghor, concerns about his treatment and health are mounting.
Just published on Substack:
#Rohingya at Sea, #Malaysia’s ‘Respectable Deportations’ and the Politics of Pushback
A critique of how states reframe pushbacks and refoulement as rescue and order.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/malaysia-r...
#Rohingya at Sea, #Malaysia’s ‘Respectable Deportations’ and the Politics of Pushback
A critique of how states reframe pushbacks and refoulement as rescue and order.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/malaysia-r...
Revisiting Malaysia’s “Respectable Deportations” of the Rohingya
Malaysia’s rhetoric of “humane” deportations hides a regional system of pushbacks, non-recognition, and deterrence that keeps the Rohingya unprotected.
www.rohingyarefugee.news
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Just published on Substack:
#Rohingya at Sea, #Malaysia’s ‘Respectable Deportations’ and the Politics of Pushback
A critique of how states reframe pushbacks and refoulement as rescue and order.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/malaysia-r...
#Rohingya at Sea, #Malaysia’s ‘Respectable Deportations’ and the Politics of Pushback
A critique of how states reframe pushbacks and refoulement as rescue and order.
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/malaysia-r...
"They shout at me all the time. It’s really hard.”
After losing her BRAC WASH job, she went to Chittagong using a friend’s birth certificate. Now she works illegally in a garment factory, facing abuse, pay cuts when ill, and landlords who refuse #Rohingya tenants.
#WFPAid vs reality
After losing her BRAC WASH job, she went to Chittagong using a friend’s birth certificate. Now she works illegally in a garment factory, facing abuse, pay cuts when ill, and landlords who refuse #Rohingya tenants.
#WFPAid vs reality
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
"… families are 100 % dependent on aid from UNICEF and partners.”
The perfect soundbite - and the perfect myth.
Hollywood star Orlando Bloom repeats a familiar humanitarian line. In reality, #Rohingya work illegally every day to survive. Read more here 👇
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The perfect soundbite - and the perfect myth.
Hollywood star Orlando Bloom repeats a familiar humanitarian line. In reality, #Rohingya work illegally every day to survive. Read more here 👇
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/orland-blo...
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"… families are 100 % dependent on aid from UNICEF and partners.”
The perfect soundbite - and the perfect myth.
Hollywood star Orlando Bloom repeats a familiar humanitarian line. In reality, #Rohingya work illegally every day to survive. Read more here 👇
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/orland-blo...
The perfect soundbite - and the perfect myth.
Hollywood star Orlando Bloom repeats a familiar humanitarian line. In reality, #Rohingya work illegally every day to survive. Read more here 👇
www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/orland-blo...
"I do household work in the host community. The rations aren’t enough.”
Once a garment worker, now she cleans and cooks to feed her family. Her story exposes the lie that Rohingya are “fully dependent” on aid.
Working to Survive - voices from the #Rohingya camps. Read more. Click ALT+
Once a garment worker, now she cleans and cooks to feed her family. Her story exposes the lie that Rohingya are “fully dependent” on aid.
Working to Survive - voices from the #Rohingya camps. Read more. Click ALT+
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"I do household work in the host community. The rations aren’t enough.”
Once a garment worker, now she cleans and cooks to feed her family. Her story exposes the lie that Rohingya are “fully dependent” on aid.
Working to Survive - voices from the #Rohingya camps. Read more. Click ALT+
Once a garment worker, now she cleans and cooks to feed her family. Her story exposes the lie that Rohingya are “fully dependent” on aid.
Working to Survive - voices from the #Rohingya camps. Read more. Click ALT+
US slashes refugee ceiling from 125,000 to 7,500 - the lowest ever. Prioritises white South African Afrikaners(!) while shutting out refugees from #Myanmar, Afghanistan & Congo. No consultation with Congress. Arbitrary and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w... #Rohingya
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w... #Rohingya
‘Broken My Hope’: Trump’s Move to Slash Refugee Arrivals Ricochets Widely
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
US slashes refugee ceiling from 125,000 to 7,500 - the lowest ever. Prioritises white South African Afrikaners(!) while shutting out refugees from #Myanmar, Afghanistan & Congo. No consultation with Congress. Arbitrary and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w... #Rohingya
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w... #Rohingya
Yellow–blue wash straight from the Ukrainian flag - is it mimicking Ukraine’s flag to sell a “heroic resistance” narrative? The Irrawaddy isn't interviewing Twan Mrat Naing - it is giving him a profile and platforming him. Editorial/aesthetic sympathy instead of scrutiny. #ArakanArmy #Myanmar
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Yellow–blue wash straight from the Ukrainian flag - is it mimicking Ukraine’s flag to sell a “heroic resistance” narrative? The Irrawaddy isn't interviewing Twan Mrat Naing - it is giving him a profile and platforming him. Editorial/aesthetic sympathy instead of scrutiny. #ArakanArmy #Myanmar
The creation of a "Rohingya leadership" in the refugee camps of Bangladesh.
thediplomat.com/2025/11/unit...
thediplomat.com/2025/11/unit...
United Council of Rohang: Bangladesh’s Script for Rohingya Leadership
The refugee camp elections did not provide not self-representation but state-supervised choreography.
thediplomat.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The creation of a "Rohingya leadership" in the refugee camps of Bangladesh.
thediplomat.com/2025/11/unit...
thediplomat.com/2025/11/unit...
Rohingya refugees were told they had finally elected their own leaders.
But the vote lists, candidates -even who could take the oath - were cleared by Bangladesh’s RRRC
Read about the United Council of Rohang:
www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-e...
But the vote lists, candidates -even who could take the oath - were cleared by Bangladesh’s RRRC
Read about the United Council of Rohang:
www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-e...
Bangladesh’s script for Rohingya leadership
When I last wrote in these pages about the Rohingya camp, the process had reached an important milestone. It was presented as a long-overdue step toward democratic participation -- the first time refu...
www.dhakatribune.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Rohingya refugees were told they had finally elected their own leaders.
But the vote lists, candidates -even who could take the oath - were cleared by Bangladesh’s RRRC
Read about the United Council of Rohang:
www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-e...
But the vote lists, candidates -even who could take the oath - were cleared by Bangladesh’s RRRC
Read about the United Council of Rohang:
www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-e...
I am not sure how i missed this. Trailer in the article. Anyone watched the whole film?
Two Rohingya siblings (4yo Shafi & 9yo Somira) risk everything, leaving a Bangladesh refugee camp for Malaysia to find family.
Lost Land by
@akio_fujimoto (on X)
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
Two Rohingya siblings (4yo Shafi & 9yo Somira) risk everything, leaving a Bangladesh refugee camp for Malaysia to find family.
Lost Land by
@akio_fujimoto (on X)
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
Venice Entry ‘Lost Land’ Trailer Reveals Harrowing Rohingya Refugee Journey Through Children’s Eyes (EXCLUSIVE)
Exclusive trailer for Venice film 'Lost Land' follows Rohingya refugee siblings on perilous journey from Bangladesh to Malaysia.
variety.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I am not sure how i missed this. Trailer in the article. Anyone watched the whole film?
Two Rohingya siblings (4yo Shafi & 9yo Somira) risk everything, leaving a Bangladesh refugee camp for Malaysia to find family.
Lost Land by
@akio_fujimoto (on X)
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
Two Rohingya siblings (4yo Shafi & 9yo Somira) risk everything, leaving a Bangladesh refugee camp for Malaysia to find family.
Lost Land by
@akio_fujimoto (on X)
variety.com/2025/film/fe...