Stateless Rohingya refugees sucked into booming Bangladesh drug trade


  • World
  • Tuesday, 28 Feb 2017

A Rohingya refugee boy is seen at Kutupalang Unregistered Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

LEDA, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Rohingya Muslim refugee Ali Hasan is desperately looking for a bride for his 14-year-old son, jailed last year in Bangladesh for carrying the popular drug ya ba. He hopes the girl's family would pay the $620 needed for Mohammed Hasan's bail as dowry.

Police arrested Mohammed with 5,000 pills of ya ba, as methamphetamine is widely known in Asia, last June. His elder brother, Izzat Ali, was arrested a few months later with 200 pills and sent to prison.

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