"The growing number of Rohingya seeking safety in Malaysia is the direct consequence of the world’s negligence and inaction." In The Diplomat, Lynn Htet from Fortify Rights argues that Malaysia can no longer treat the Rohingya crisis as Myanmar's internal affair.

Malaysia Must Reject Hate and Confront Myanmar Over the Rohingya Crisis

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s government has largely remained silent about the recent online “hate campaign” targeting Rohingya refugees.

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🚨 Fortify Rights investigation documents the killing of scores of Rohingya civilians by the Arakan Army on May 2, 2024, in Hoyyar Siri, also known as Htan Shauk Khan village in Buthidaung Township, Rakhine State. bit.ly/RohingyaMassacre2024

Arman Mondol, from Bangladesh, was promised work abroad in Europe. Instead, brokers deceived him and sent him to fight on the frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine. More is documented in a new report by Fortify Rights and Truth Hounds. Read the full report: bit.ly/Tricked-into-the-War

Maksudur Rahman is a Bangladeshi father & son who left home hoping to support his family with the promised civilian job, but were deceived by brokers. Fortify Rights & Truth Hounds new report exposes how Bangladeshi men are trafficked into Russia's war against Ukraine. bit.ly/Tricked-into-the-War

📢 Tomorrow in Bangkok Panel Discussion: Impacts in South & Southeast Asia from Russia’s Illegal War in Ukraine 📅 March 6 | 7:00 PM 📍 FCCT, Bangkok Live on FCCT and Fortify Rights Facebook page

🇨🇳 New reporting on the latest house church arrests in China highlights deepening concerns over religious freedom. Senior Director Benedict Rogers describes the detentions as part of a wider crackdown, warning they reflect the Chinese Communist Party’s “absolute intent to control religion.”

China intent on ‘persecution’ say campaigners, after latest house church arrests - The Tablet

The Chinese government’s policy towards religion “is not about indigenisation” but persecution, according to the daughter of an imprisoned church leader.

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𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 “𝗜 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿” A new joint report by Fortify Rights & Truth Hounds reveals how Bangladeshi men have been deceived, coerced, & trafficked into the Russian Army & deployed to the frontlines of Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine. bit.ly/FortifyEventRegister

🙌 Meet the people behind Fortify Rights’s new Leadership Council. From former government ministers and Parliamentarians, diplomats and legal experts, to artists, entrepreneurs and human rights defenders, our Leadership Council members share why they are joining our cause to advance human rights.

As the new gov't of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party takes office, it must prioritise lifting longstanding restrictions on Rohingya refugees. John Quinley of Fortify Rights highlights how Bhasan Char has been used to isolate & confine Rohingya refugees. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

The Bhasan Char project was never about protection, it’s about Rohingya confinement

Whoever takes office in Bangladesh after the elections next month must prioritise lifting longstanding and deeply embedded restrictions on refugees.

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🇧🇩 Bangladesh’s incoming gov't must ensure freedom of movement for Rohingya refugees in camps and on Bhasan Char. “Freedom of movement is a fundamental right for a human being and Rohingya should not be deprived just because they are refugees." - Zaw Win www.fortifyrights.org/bgd-inv-2026...

Bhasan Char has failed Rohingya refugees, but the blame doesn’t lie with Bangladesh alone. By ignoring the rights and views clearly expressed by Rohingya refugees, the UN and donor governments have enabled the restrictions on movement and detention. en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-e...

Bhasan Char is a failure, but it’s not all Bangladesh’s fault

Bangladesh and the international community need to end support for Bhasan Char. They must commit to solutions that present a win for refugees and Bangladeshis

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As Jimmy Lai, a 78-year-old British pro-democracy publisher, was unjustly sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong, Benedict Rogers from Fortify Rights urges the British government to make Lai’s release a priority. spectator.com/article/brit...

Britain cannot leave Jimmy Lai to die in jail

Beijing has been allowed to make an example of Mr Lai by imposing a cruel sentence. Now it must be pressed to show clemency.

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In the aftermath of the February 2021 coup, Myanmar military and police forces shot and killed unarmed civilians, tortured detainees, and carried out mass arbitrary arrests across cities and towns nationwide. Learn more: www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-rep-...

Bangladesh 🇧🇩 Bhasan Char has always been a failed project. It should serve as a lesson for both the UN and governments, illustrating the dangers of trying to “manage” refugees rather than recognising them as individual rights-holders. Read the op-ed: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

The Bhasan Char project was never about protection, it’s about Rohingya confinement

Whoever takes office in Bangladesh after the elections next month must prioritise lifting longstanding and deeply embedded restrictions on refugees.

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🇲🇲 NEW: Australia and Timor-Leste should jointly refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court, said Fortify Rights, as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Timor-Leste’s leaders in Dili today. Read the full news release: www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-2026...

🇧🇩 “The election in February is not simply about who governs next, but about whether Bangladesh finally breaks its long cycle of authoritarianism and political violence. The revolution that forced Hasina from power was, at its core, a demand for human rights.” www.independent.co.uk/voices/bangl...

As Bangladesh heads to the polls, human rights must come first

Bangladesh has a rare opportunity to choose a path that shuns the abuses of previous administrations, John Quinley and Benedict Rogers say

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🇲🇲 NEW: The Myanmar military junta is increasingly using commercial paramotors and gyrocopters to carry out targeted attacks on civilians, including schools, hospitals, monasteries, and peaceful gatherings, Fortify Rights said today. Read the full news release: www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-2026...

On January 21, 2026, Fortify Rights launched a new report, “Like Prisoners: The Mass Arbitrary Detention and Warehousing of Rohingya Refugees on Bhasan Char in Bangladesh,” at Dhaka Reporters Unity, documenting the systematic confinement of Rohingya refugees. Full report: bit.ly/BhasanCharRe...

🇧🇩 NEW: Bangladesh should immediately close Bhasan Char and end the mass arbitrary detention of Rohingya refugees, said Fortify Rights in a new report published today. Read the full news release: www.fortifyrights.org/bgd-inv-2026... Read the report: www.fortifyrights.org/bgd-inv-rep-...

📢 🇧🇩 TODAY: REPORT LAUNCH “Like Prisoners: The Mass Arbitrary Detention and Warehousing of Rohingya Refugees on Bhasan Char in Bangladesh” A new report by Fortify Rights documents the arbitrary confinement of Rohingya refugees on Bhasan Char.

Fortify Rights CEO Matthew Smith, with The Gambia's legal team, the Rohingya delegation of witnesses, and The Gambia’s Attorney General on the final day of the first round of oral hearings in The Gambia v. Myanmar case.

In a new op-ed for The Catholic Herald, Senior Director Benedict Rogers warns that Myanmar remains in the grip of a man-made human rights disaster, marked by daily airstrikes on civilians and sham elections designed to legitimize an illegal military regime. thecatholicherald.com/article/myan...

Myanmar’s sham elections

As Myanmar marks five years since its military coup, the junta’s staged elections, mass repression and escalating humanitarian catastrophe expose a crisis

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🇭🇰 Democracy activist Jimmy Lai was found guilty of multiple violations of China’s national security laws. He has not been formally sentenced, but is likely facing life in prison. Senior Director Benedict Rogers reacts to the conviction on Ave Maria Radio. avemariapm.substack.com/p/jimmy-lai-...

Jimmy Lai convicted, faces life in prison

Benedict Rogers of Hong Kong watch reacts to the conviction of democracy activist Jimmy Lai.

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🇹🇭 พรุ่งนี้ วันที่ 17 ธันวาคม ศาลจังหวัดแม่สอดเตรียมอ่านคำพิพากษาศาลอุทธรณ์ คดีนายอ่องโกโกที่ถูกเจ้าหน้าที่ทหารไทยทรมานจนเสียชีวิตที่ชายแดนไทย-เมียนมา เมื่อวันที่ 12 มกราคม 2567 ขณะที่ชาวเมียนมาอีกรายหนึ่งถูกตัดสินว่ามีความผิด แต่ผู้กระทำความผิดที่แท้จริงยังคงลอยนวล ซ้ำด้วยการที่กรมสอบสวนคดีพิเศษ ของไทยได้ปฏิเสธที่จะรับคดีนี้ไปสอบสวน www.fortifyrights.org/tha-inv-2025...

Thailand: Investigate Military Involvement in Torture, Acquit Wrongly Accused Myanmar National - Fortify Rights

Court to issue verdict in fatal torture of Myanmar national, key suspects remain at large

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🇹🇭 NEW: Tomorrow, December 17, the Mae Sot Provincial Court will issue its appeal verdict in the case of Aung Ko Ko, a Myanmar national tortured to death by Thai soldiers at the Thai-Myanmar border on January 12, 2024. Read the news release: www.fortifyrights.org/tha-inv-2025...

🇭🇰 NEW: A Hong Kong court has convicted media entrepreneur and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai under the city’s draconian national security law. He now faces life imprisonment after five years of arbitrary detention for exercising basic freedoms. 🔗 www.fortifyrights.org/eas-inv-2025...

🇹🇭 သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် - ထိုင်းအာဏာပိုင်များသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသား ၃,၅၀၀ ကျော်ကို ရနောင်း–ကော့သောင်း နယ်စပ်ဂိတ်မှတစ်ဆင့် မြန်မာစစ်အုပ်စုထံ အတင်းအကျပ် လွှဲပြောင်းပေးခဲ့ရာ၊ စစ်အုပ်စုကလည်း ပြန်လည်ပို့ဆောင်ခံရသူများကို စစ်မှုထမ်းရန် အတင်းအဓမ္မစေခိုင်းခဲ့သည်။ ဤအတင်းအကျပ် ပြန်ပို့မှုများသည် ထိုင်းနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေများအား ချိုးဖောက်ရာရောက်သလို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသားများအားလည်း ကြီးလေးသော ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ဆီသို့ တိုက်ရိုက်တွန်းပို့လိုက်ခြင်းပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ bit.ly/PushbackMYA

🇹🇭 BREAKING: Thai authorities forcibly returned more than 3,500 Myanmar nationals to the Myanmar military junta, who, in turn, forced returnees into the military. Thailand's actions may amount to torture, refoulement, and human trafficking. Full news release: www.fortifyrights.org/tha-inv-2025...

🇲🇾 Malaysian authorities must end their abusive campaign of immigration crackdowns and investigate deaths in detention centers. “Detainees face severe torture, both physical and psychological.”, Yap Lay Sheng told the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/w...

Where Hundreds of Undocumented Migrants Have Died in Custody

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As the Myanmar junta prepares its “sham elections”, it is escalating deadly airstrikes on civilians in Karenni State and along Karenni-Shan state border. Fortify Rights’s new report documents 12 airstrikes that killed at least 55 people, including children. Read the report: bit.ly/HorrificSigh...