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Iran denounces terrorist mosque shooting in Canada
Jan 30, 2017 14:09Iran has denounced a terrorist shooting at a mosque in Quebec City during evening prayers, describing it as “inhumane and criminal.”
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Prominent Muslim lawyer gunned down in Myanmar
Jan 29, 2017 14:18A prominent Muslim lawyer and adviser to Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party has been assassinated along with a taxi driver outside the country’s busiest airport.
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Muslim advocacy group to file lawsuit challenging trump's Muslim ban order
Jan 28, 2017 11:16Reports say a prominent Muslim advocacy group will file a federal lawsuit against US President Donald Trump over his far-reaching executive order targeting Muslims.
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Trump supporter abuses, kicks Muslim woman at JFK airport
Jan 27, 2017 14:27A supporter of US President Donald Trump from Massachusetts has attacked a Muslim woman at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, kicking and shouting obscenities at her.
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Bangladesh urges Myanmar to end violence against Rohingya Muslims
Jan 12, 2017 17:06Bangladesh has urged Myanmar to end months of persecution and violence that have forced thousands of Rohingya Muslims in the northwestern Rakhine State to flee across the border.
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UN to probe Myanmar crackdown on Rohingya
Jan 06, 2017 11:23The United Nations is conducting a probe into a harsh military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar following reports of rapes, killings, and torture against the minority group in the Buddhist-dominated country.
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Rights groups slam Myanmar abuse cover-up
Jan 05, 2017 10:49Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other rights groups have accused Myanmar of trying to cover up abuses perpetrated by the country’s government forces against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
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Footage emerges showing Myanmar police beating Rohingya Muslims
Jan 02, 2017 15:02A new video has emerged showing Myanmar’s police using excessive force against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
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Rohingya Muslims: World's most persecuted minority
Dec 27, 2016 09:18Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. They have faced torture, neglect and repression since Myanmar’s independence in 1948. The Muslim minority group has witnessed attacks by extremist Buddhists in Myanmar. The violence has forced nearly 100,000 of them to flee the country.
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Pressure mounts on Myanmar as state crimes against Muslims documented
Dec 19, 2016 10:36An international rights group has warned Myanmar that its widespread military crackdown on the Rohingya community may amount to crimes against humanity, as a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers convenes in the country to discuss means of ending the plight of the ethnic Muslims.