Indonesian police name five suspects for alleged trafficking of Rohingya refugees


This handout photo taken and released on April 5, 2020 by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency shows a wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi. (Handout/Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency/AFP/-) This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title "Police name five suspects for alleged trafficking of Rohingya refugees". Click to read: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/10/29/police-name-five-suspects-for-alleged-trafficking-of-rohingya-refugees.html.

ACEH, Sumatra (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Aceh Police have named five suspects for allegedly trafficking Rohingya refugees to Indonesia in June.

The suspects were identified as two fishermen from East Aceh regency, a woman from Medan in North Sumatra and two people of Rohingya ethnicity, as revealed by Aceh Police general crimes unit chief Sr. Comr. Sony Sanjaya during a recent press briefing.

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