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Agence France-Presse: Russia detains dozens at protest supporting Rohingya

Published Sept. 10, 2017 at 4:42 pm

Rohingya Muslim refugees wait in line for relief supplies after crossing the Naf river in the Bangladeshi town of Teknaf on Sept. 9. Nearly 300,000 Rohingya have fled violence churning through Rakhine state into Bangladesh, the United Nations said on Sept. 9, as Myanmar's government for the first time offered humanitarian aid to members of the Muslim minority still inside the country. The UN is braced for a further surge of arrivals in Bangladesh with tens of thousands more believed to be displaced in Rakhine, fleeing burning villages, the army and ethnic Rakhine mobs - who Rohingya refugees accuse of attacking civilians.

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MOSCOW – Russian police detained people from a crowd of about 200 protesters Sunday in Saint Petersburg who had gathered over the crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

The square in the city centre was surrounded with police vans and policemen were leading people away into the vans, an AFP correspondent at the scene said, counting over 100 detained at the unauthorised demonstration.