The International Criminal Court should include this massacre in its ongoing investigation in Myanmar, and U.N. member states should impose targeted sanctions on AA and its commanders.
bit.ly/RohingyaMassacre2024
🚨 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
We’ll discuss:
✅ Documented atrocities in Ukraine
✅ Russia–Myanmar junta cooperation
✅ Trafficking and coerced recruitment of Bangladeshi men
✅ What regional governments should do
📢 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.”
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...
🇧🇩 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...
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...
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...
🇲🇲 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...
🇲🇲 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...
2/2 🧵
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...
🇭🇰 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-...
“คำพิพากษาในชั้นอุทธรณ์เป็นช่วงเวลาสำคัญที่จะแก้ไขคดีนี้ให้ถูกต้อง” แมทธิว สมิธ ประธานเจ้าหน้าที่บริหารของฟอร์ตี้ฟายไรต์ กล่าว “ในช่วงที่สภาผู้แทนราษฎรถูกยุบ รัฐบาลไทย ไม่ว่าจะเป็นรัฐบาลชุดใดในอนาคต ควรเร่งดำเนินการสอบสวนเชิงรุกและทบทวนพยานหลักฐานทั้งหมดอย่างรอบด้าน เพื่อให้ผู้กระทำผิดถูกนำตัวมารับผิด และเพื่อไม่ให้ผู้เสียหายถูกปฏิเสธความยุติธรรม”
bit.ly/AungKoKoThai
🇹🇭 พรุ่งนี้ วันที่ 17 ธันวาคม ศาลจังหวัดแม่สอดเตรียมอ่านคำพิพากษาศาลอุทธรณ์ คดีนายอ่องโกโกที่ถูกเจ้าหน้าที่ทหารไทยทรมานจนเสียชีวิตที่ชายแดนไทย-เมียนมา เมื่อวันที่ 12 มกราคม 2567
ขณะที่ชาวเมียนมาอีกรายหนึ่งถูกตัดสินว่ามีความผิด แต่ผู้กระทำความผิดที่แท้จริงยังคงลอยนวล ซ้ำด้วยการที่กรมสอบสวนคดีพิเศษ ของไทยได้ปฏิเสธที่จะรับคดีนี้ไปสอบสวน
www.fortifyrights.org/tha-inv-2025...
“With parliament dissolved, the Thai government—regardless of who forms the next administration—should take urgent action to ... ensure that perpetrators are held accountable and that victims are not denied justice.”
www.fortifyrights.org/tha-inv-2025...
🇹🇭 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...