Milan Khajeii Held Incommunicado in Shiraz for Over a Week

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November 21, 2025 in Women's News

More than a week after the arrest of Milan Khajeii in Shiraz, no official or credible information has been released regarding her whereabouts or health condition.

Milan Khajeii (Fatemeh), 30, a native of Shiraz and a suspended history student at the University of Zahedan, was detained by security forces in Shiraz and has since remained in complete incommunicado detention.

To date, no clear charges or reasons for Milan Khajeii’s arrest have been announced ...

https://wncri.org/2025/11/21/milan-khajeii-held-incommunicado-in-shiraz/

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1. Baloch civilians disappear at the hands of Pakistani forces

Quetta, Nov 18 (IANS) At least twelve Baloch civilians, including four women and an elderly man, were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani security forces in Balochistan, amid a growing wave of enforced disappearance, a leading human rights organisation said on Tuesday.

The latest incident comes against the backdrop of a continuing cycle of persecution marked by a surge in enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and torture across the province.

Expressing concern, human rights organisation Baloch Voice for Justice (BVJ) stated that the twelve individuals were reportedly taken into custody by Pakistani security forces in Kech district and subsequently remain unaccounted for.

Citing local sources, the rights body noted that the individuals, including Lal Bakhsh, Farzana, Memal, Sher Bano and Shireen, were detained while travelling for a pilgrimage, and their current whereabouts remain unknown ....

https://ianslive.in/twelve-baloch-civilians-forcibly-disappear-at-the-hands-of-pakistani-forces--20251118154543

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2. Starvation and forced labour as tools of erasure

Originally published 19 Nov 2025

This report – the twelfth in our ongoing series – documents continued breaches of the International Court of Justice’s binding orders to protect the Rohingya, issued as part of The Gambia’s genocide case against Myanmar. It is being published ahead of Myanmar’s next six-month reporting deadline to the Court.

Drawing on first-hand documentation from Rakhine State, gathered despite severe access and communication restrictions imposed by both the Burmese military and the Arakan Army, the report exposes how both forces are using starvation, forced labour and widespread abuses as tools of erasure against the Rohingya.With the Arakan Army now controlling large parts of Rakhine State, Rohingya now face two oppressors instead of one.

The report details how aid and trade blockades, forced recruitment, and escalating abuses are driving acute malnutrition, particularly among children, and displacing Rohingya families into unsafe, overcrowded areas. Many are now attempting dangerous sea crossings in a desperate effort to escape worsening persecution.

In northern Rakhine State specifically, the Arakan Army has intensified forced labour and forced recruitment, alongside arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention, disappearances, torture and extrajudicial killings – collectively amounting to an escalating campaign to erase the Rohingya from their homeland ...

https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/rohingya-genocide-starvation-and-forced-labour-tools-erasure