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The move follows days of protests against sexual assaults including one posted on social media.

For a seventh straight year, Freedom House rates Thailand as “not free.”

Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s foreign minister and a visiting senior American official discuss efforts to aid the refugee group.

Officials said the conference was needed because the U.N. had not met its 2020 goal.

Meanwhile, the foreign minister and his counterpart from Beijing discussed efforts to repatriate Rohingya.

Government orders public and private offices to turn away people who don’t cover their faces.

Protesters say cartoons defame Islam and cause anguish, as France reels over teacher slain for showing them in class.

The Rapid Action Battalion unlawfully killed more than 400 people since 2015, they say.

The incident took place amid nationwide anger over the French president’s defense of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.

Golam Sarwar said his attackers did not kill him to send a message to other reporters.

Reform the justice system to achieve nationwide goal of becoming safe for women by 2025, Human Rights Watch says.

Nation will pay U.S. $2 billion for power the plant generates over 25 years, officials say.

The firm likely wants to leave because Dhaka refused to co-fund the program, he adds.

But 300 separate refugee families have agreed to move to the island, a senior official says.

Discussions to return the thousands of refugees living in Bangladesh camps began three years ago.

Hefazat-e-Islam recently elected a pro-opposition leader and sidelined pro-government members.

In early September, the city-state stepped up probes into people suspected of being radicalized.

International organizations have criticized the plan, saying Bhashan Char is vulnerable to cyclones and not inhabitable.

Dhaka broke its promise not to relocate refugees until humanitarian experts approved the move, Human Rights Watch says.

Bangladesh Starts Moving Rohingya to Bay of Bengal Isle

A first batch of refugees leaves for Bashan Char Island.

An ex-Bangladesh Water Development Board official says diversion of river’s waters could have disastrous consequences downstream.

Government will pay $240 million for power the plant generates over 20 years.

The bridge on the Padma River is expected to open for vehicular traffic in a year, officials say,

Washington urges Dhaka to allow United Nations to determine if island is habitable before relocation.

Don’s Team and CRAF members are accused of targeting activists, journalists and minorities.

At virtual summit, Sheikh Hasina also tells Narendra Modi of Dhaka’s interest in joining three-nation highway project.

The killing was premeditated and planned by a policeman involved in drug smuggling, charge sheet says.

United Nations says government still considering its request to assess conditions on Bhashan Char.

Yet, government says, it’s “ready to facilitate” United Nations in assessing livability of island where refugees are being relocated.

Separately, Malaysia detained 35 Rohingya who illegally entered from Indonesia, police say.